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Cooperman, Jeannette. "Out of the Broom Closet: The Deep Hidden Meaning of Domesticity in Postfeminist Novels by Louise Erdrich, Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley and Amy Tan," American Studies Program, Saint Louis University, April 1996.
Housework is often dismissed-even by feminists-as mundane drudgery. In the six novels of this study, however, it functions as an arena of love, power, healing, murder, and transcendence. Before analyzing the literature, I traced the social history of housework and the tensions felt by women writers alternating between broom and inkpen, everyday details and abstract ideas, homebound nurturing and worldly interchange. After describing each author’s background and perspective, I outlined the various functions and layered meanings of domesticity in her novel. Finally, I showed broader patterns-domestic ritual’s ability to create order or chaos; establish or sever relationship; constrain or free the spirit.
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