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Next door, in Science Center A, the Radcliffe Union of Students and H-R Women's Center presents Wilmette Brown, a spokeswoman for the International Wages for Housework Campaign, who will speak at 8 p.m. on "Women, Children and Busing...
...gentle way, the show changed television's image of women. During the pleistocene era of Ozzie and Harriet or Donna Reed, the women, in skirts curiously bouffant for housework, had to make their witticisms in or near the kitchen, lest the chocolate-chip cookies burn. Mary Tyler Moore, playing Rob Petrie's wife on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66), wore tighter dresses but was a thoroughly suburban housewife: Rob went to work, Laura worried about the pet duck catching cold...
...blessed by, and based on, religion; that sex inside marriage is sacred, though sinful outside; that it is largely up to a wife to keep her husband from straying and, indeed, to set the moral and spiritual tone of their union. Today, in addition to all the chores of housework-and, increasingly, the additional demands of an outside job as well-the American housewife is suffering from a fundamental uncertainty about what a housewife is or should...
...gone into Woman at Home (Doubleday; $6.95). Like the housewives she often speaks to and for, she is no antifeminist, but she objects sharply to the rhetoric of the women's movement-at least in its more extreme forms. It has done considerable harm, she feels, by lumping housework and child care together and dismissing them as something that women must escape in order to achieve "selfhood." It has also deluded women about both the pleasures and the problems of commercial work and about the ease of being a responsible parent and pursuing a career at the same time...
...this decade. Finney has begun to chafe and drink under the pressures of holding on to his mistress and landing a higher-level job, and now looks forward to a day when "people will stay together because they really want to." Roberts has become almost catatonic, neglects her housework and her appearance, and stoops, desperately, to the last ploy she can think of to blackmail Finney back: "If you walk out that door," she threatens, "I'll klll myself, and the kids too." But when he goes she pours the three glasses of Nembutal she had prepared in with...