The meaning of wife / Anne Kingston.
"The confusion over the role of wife and the way this uncertainty has impacted women of all generations is at the heart of Anne Kingston's The Meaning of Wife." "Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of wifehood today...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Summary: | "The confusion over the role of wife and the way this uncertainty has impacted women of all generations is at the heart of Anne Kingston's The Meaning of Wife." "Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of wifehood today, Kingston takes the reader on a journey into the wedding-industrial complex, which elevates the bride to a potent consumer icon by fanning the flames of "wife lust"; through the recent romanticization of domesticity; and across the conflicted terrain of wifely sexuality. Conversely, Kingston explores "wife backlash": the glorification of single women in the culture, as no better evidenced than by the wild success of Sex and the City; the apotheosis of the abused wife; and the perverse celebration of wives who kill their husbands. Along the way, Kingston muses on why Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart - two of the world's wealthiest and most influential women - are both non-wives whose success hinged on their understanding of wives; how the role of wife remains to this day a method of keeping women in check; and why ultimately the definition of wife should be the battleground for our next social revolution."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2004. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0374205108 |