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...time or another, a number of people believed that they knew him better. A 50-year-old dressmaker in Folkestone married Tyte in 1965, let him do the shopping and the housework and then threw him out for unspecified acts. He then enchanted two elderly sisters in Cheshire, moved in with them and stole their money. In London he seduced a shopgirl who, twelve years after she bore his daughter, still hopes he will marry...
...strongest and best-know essay of the lot, "Click! The Housewife's Moment of Truth," provides a primer for the housewife who has recently become aware she is oppressed. ("Decide what housework needs to be done. Then cut the list in half... Do not feel guilty.") It also lists various epiphanic moments when women realized their traditional role was absurd (at a consciousness-raising group exercise, the women discover they envision themselves as domesticated cats; a husband praises himself for helping his working wife with housework on his vacation...
Vivaldi: Six Oboe Concertos--Han de Vries and I Solisti di Zagreb offer an engaging set of undemanding works, the sort of record (like much of Vivaldi) one can listen to while doing the housework or studying for mid-terms. Such music has its own rewards. (Angel...
...after three years spent doing housework for 30 male commune members--Harrison painfully squeezed out of the narrow cage of fundamentalist repression. Today, she is an independent, divorced Brooklyn feminist with two children. Her unshackled intellect hasn't destroyed her; it's made her one of the hottest magazine writers in the country. But as the essays in this first collection demonstrate, she can be what the church fathers had feared: a predator in prose. She's always on the prowl for the villains that disfigured her youth hokum, slovenly thought, and moral spinelessness, the national pastimes of American...
...order to encourage women to work, AMNLAE, working with the FSLN-run urban block associations, the Sandinist Defense Committees (through which AMNLAE reaches its 350,000 active members out of a total population of one million women), pressures men to assume child care and housework responsibilities. With the Ministry of Social Welfare, AMNLAE hopes to open 30 free daycare centers in urban Nicaragua (so far, 11 have been established--six in Managua, three in Leon and two in Grenada) and plans similar facilities for rural areas...