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The Work Cure for Women

This vague put-upon feeling had been bothering me for some time, but only recently did I finally realize that I’m just one victim of a vast conspiracy. Chances are that…

The domestic gulag

by Laura Kipnis,

The case against chores

by Jane Smiley,

How America “solved” the servant problem

by Russell Lynes,

The work cure for women

by Lorna Jean King,

My kitchen hates me

by Sylvia Wright,

The returning warrior and the life of Reilly

by Harper’s Staff,

Housekeeping after the war

by Priscilla Smith Robertson, Hawley Jones,

Housekeeping in five languages

by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck,

Personal and otherwise

by Harper’s Staff,

What Patricia heard from Tokio (part II)

by Frances Little,