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Housewives as consumers

American Electra

by Susan Faludi,

Feminism's ritual matricide

The drip spoon plate society

by Sylvia Wright,

Unrest in the Kitchen

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

Mr. Thomas Beer once wrote a story whose plot turned on the bitterness felt by the owner of a department store when a newspaper commented unfavorably on the quality of…

Quality, not quantity

by Harper’s Staff,

An enlargement of the liver

by Harper’s Staff,

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