Spouse-devouring Black Widows and Their Neutered Mates: Postwar Suburbanization—A Battle over Domestic Space
Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: If the day is clear and if you climb high enough, you can look over tree tops and see the city.. .Its presence within view of this pretty green town seems incongruous and illogical...The residents of this town like to think of it as a peaceful country community.Even to the casual observer, however, it is different.Many of the town's people have a pins-and-needles quality.. .someare worse off.One of the young husbands who went to work this morning isfeeling ill.His stomach hurts.He doesn'tfeel like eating lunch.Early in the afternoon he suddenly starts to vomit blood.He is rushed to the hospital with a hemorrhaging ulcer.In one of the split level houses, a young mother is crying.She is crouching in a dark closet.Voices in the walls are telling her she is worthless...In the darkness between two houses, a young man creeps up to a window and looks in.He is disappointed, for the housewife he sees isfully clothed.He disappears into the darkness to lookfor another window.Down at the police station it has been afairly quiet evening... Suddenly the door of the station house bursts open and a wild eyed young mother comes in.She begs to be locked up.She talks incoherently of performing sexualperversions with her husband and stabbing her baby... What is happening to these people?What is missing, what is so terribly wrong, in this pretty green community?-
Author: Jennifer M. Kalish
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W291570561