but i don't mind it'll be more comfortable in the house sex life's billy is hurt by her husband's declining sexual interest in her and feels bored and isolated by her housewife status even with his support i've never caught him looking at another woman hell i've never even caught him in a lie so what's the problem right the show suggests that even in a caring environment women still need to sacrifice the more free and sexual sides of themselves in order to fill the homemaker role i used to simply accept cooper's waning passion as proof this is what happens when you grow up get married get into a routine another key factor in the existence of the housewife is money in close to home a materialist analysis of female oppression feminist sociologist christine delphi explains that while the labor market pays workers based on their job two housewives can perform the same task for example raise three children while receiving very different benefits she writes it is impossible for married women to improve their own standard of living by improving their services the only solution for them is to provide the same services for a richer man thus the logical consequence of the non-value of women's family labor is the hunt for a good marriage as a woman there's no way for me to make my own money not enough to earn a living don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition because it is but even though the upper middle class housewife has often been depicted as a symbol of materialistic plenty her financial situation is often characterized by a feeling of precarity delphi notes that being married to a rich man does not make a woman independently rich her wealth can be lost along with her husband and if she seeks to re-enter the job market or remarry upon divorce her options may be limited belgian art house film jean dielman NUMBER_TOKEN quanti chemist NUMBER_TOKEN brasel which explores the mundane existence of widowed housewife jean dielman in a near-real-time approach shows her turning to sex work in order to provide for her son in the NUMBER_TOKENs and NUMBER_TOKENs post-feminism emerged with the idea that women could now choose their position either at home or at work the reality was murkier as we see reflected in the media created both then and now but a strong supposedly feminist area of thought began to cast the housewife as someone to be pitied lacking agency and surely miserable in NUMBER_TOKEN's thelma and louise thelma's only way out of the trap of domesticity is ultimately through death starting in NUMBER_TOKEN desperate housewives explores a group of women with stepford-like beautiful bodies and homes who frequently find themselves caught up in serious crimes the veneer of their picture-perfect existence allows some of the wives to get away with murder there's even an implication that if they weren't at home alone all day they wouldn't get themselves into so much trouble in the same decade iconic anti-hero housewives were powerless to stop their husbands misdeeds yet ended up complicit in them i love my husband but my life is financed by crime his crime in the NUMBER_TOKENs modern family highlighted how the contemporary expectation for women to work has led us to often view the housewife in one of two ways she's either an early season claire a woman whose world
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