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31. This presents a problem for many women, because as a housewife you are not paid.

32. She looked horsey as well as strong, like a kind of repellent Country Living housewife.

33. This suggests that the personal identification of women with the housewife role weights the balance in favour of a psychological involvement in housework.

34. For audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse it is difficult to imagine anyone who could portray the bored middle-aged housewife so well.

35. In the words of a working-class housewife living on a new council estate: It depends what you call friends.

36. A housewife has asked us if she should pay off her mortgage now, while she can still afford to do so.

37. And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.

38. There was, of course, a great deal of variation between one housewife and another.

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39. The man convicted of murdering pregnant housewife Marie Wilkes says he hopes to get bail so he can be set free.

40. For this reason an assessment was made for all the forty women of their levels of identification with the housewife role.

41. He waved to her from the gate, where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man.

42. A warehouse foreman's wife says: I mind writing housewife on a form.

43. This would be evidence against the present finding that identification with the housewife role is not differentiated by class.

44. It was, of course, the perfect training for a housewife, even if the house in question were a stately home.

45. Enjoyment of one's past job does not augur well for contentment in the role of housewife.

46. She quit her secretarial job to become a full-time housewife.

47. Conception of oneself as a housewife or not is liable to influence a woman's behaviour in a variety of ways.

48. Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.

49. Discontent with the traditional role of housewife is seen as a middle-class prerogative.

50. But the addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife.

51. She didn't want to take him back, she hated the idea, but she was a middle-aged housewife.

52. And, lastly, the definition of rules for housework establishes a mechanism whereby the housewife can reward herself for doing it.

53. Adam cleared away and washed up, happy to act as housewife while he was still unemployed.

54. Is she to give up being a housewife, put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work?

55. The housewife refers to them as external obligations to which she feels a deep need to conform.

56. Whereas with us, it's the young, working-class housewife who suffers most from isolation.

57. Their reference is to the middle-class norm of the discontented housewife.

58. Is a conception of self as housewife in fact articulated as part of the self-image?

59. Watchers assumed they were film-stars or monarchs, but looked in their programmes and found each woman self-labelled as an ordinary housewife.

60. There are also indications from other sources that women's basic allegiance to the housewife role is not class-dependent.