Word: housework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steinem said that the system must redefine work to include the "raising of human babies" and housework. She said that society is still male-dominated and will stay that way until women work to dismantle...
...most of all "They don't know how to control it," says Belisle's co-worker Anna Ferzoco. "And when they get angry they hit." Some women can be taught not to hurt their children simply by getting instruction, literally, in such things as how to do housework efficiently, care for the child properly, cook meals. Women who have been abandoned by husbands are frequent child abusers, though they often depend emotionally on the very children they hurt. Sometimes the emotional role is tragically reversed. Belisle recalls a hearing before a judge in which a mother was fighting...
...another. That really threatened my husband." As the experience at Harvard became a central part of the women's lives, some husbands began retaliating. Marguerite's husband accused her of not being a good wife, and she remembers he "couldn't understand why I didn't want to do housework." As the rate of personal growth accelerated for all of these women, old relationships became more and more untenable. Susanna told of being informed by one Radcliffe official of a "Harvard syndrome"--a condition that hits couples with one member at Harvard and one member outside, eventually destroying the link...
When not engaged in light housework, Arok passes the day gazing sternly over the living room from his accustomed corner next to the TV set. He moves toward you quietly, with an air of intimidating strength. You know his limbs contain sensors that will short his circuits before he can crush your limbs, but you are reluctant to take his hand when he offers it. You know Arok's master is putting words in his mouth from across the room through a microphone in an attache´ case-sized control panel, but you find yourself interviewing him with stiff...
Between fires and false alarms the men spend long periods of time waiting in the firehouse. They keep busy by doing rather ordinary things like practicing firefighting skills, maintaining their apparatus, or doing housework--they do all of their own cooking and cleaning. They also play a lot of ping-pong (a good game for the firehouse because it is easily interrupted), watch television or just sit around the kitchen table drinking coffee and engaging in endless streams of locker-room banter...