Word: wifehood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Stephanie marries Paul and settles into an American country wifehood that the teasing promise of her intricate and highly individual childhood declines toward case history, and static, predictable domestic woe. Stephanie's cries rise to heaven like those of De Sade's Justine, a girl, one recollects, with far more justification for complaint. Paul, Stephanie grants, is a splendid lover, a fine husband, a kind man, a devoted father-as handsome, she reports, as Jimmy Stewart. But he doesn't want to live in the city. And he doesn't talk to Stephanie enough...
Abigail Quigley McCarthy, Litt.D. For her efforts in the cause of women's rights while voluntarily accepting for herself a "life defined by others-by wifehood and motherhood...