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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Brian Moylan's The Housewives
Brian Moylan takes readers on a table-flipping, finger-pointing VIP voyage through reality TV in The Housewives (2021).
The Real Housewives of Orange County began on Bravo in spring 2006. Its stars were tanned, taut, and bejeweled; their houses were like mansions; and the drama was gossip-fueled and wine-soaked. Along with the Real Housewives of New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Miami,...
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xx, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"The notion of "housewife" evokes strong reactions. For some, it's nostalgia for a bygone era, simpler and better times when men were breadwinners and women remained home with the kids. For others, it's a sexist, oppressive stereotype of women's work. Either way, housewife is a long outdated concept-or is it? Lisa Selin Davis, known for her smart, viral, feminist, cultural takes, argues that the "breadwinner vs. homemaker" divide is a myth. She charts...
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"Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce -- except in Reno, Nevada. At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's famous "divorce ranches," Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency...
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678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
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"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--
"Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever...
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