Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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marriages I envy,” she said. “A lot of women are
just hanging in there for the security, but that’s a
dumb reason to get married.”
• I used to call my husband, “AB — arrogant
bastard,” started
Eleanor Driver.
“And he was, but
he was strong and dominant, and I liked that. When
the university offered me a job, he said, ‘Go ahead
— but I want my socks washed.”
A revealing portrait of the average American
housewife and her response to “women’s lib” was
drawn by author, wife and mother, Sue Kaufman:
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She is anywhere from 24 to 45 — a wife, a
mother, a housewife. She is usually far from
mad (crazy or angry), far from being wildly
bitter -— but also far from being satisfied with
what or where she is. Though she isn’t too
clear on where she would rather be, she
knows it isn’t up there on the big, steam
rolling bandwagon of Women’s Lib, or in the
front ranks of the marching phalanx, waving
banners. Much as she admires them.
And she does admire them...