A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Housewives
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 1987. 1990.
_____. From Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. In Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000. 467-75.*
_____. "The Politics of Domestic Fiction: Dickens, Thackeray and the Brontës." In New Historicism and Cultural Materialism: A Reader Ed. Kiernan Ryan. London: Arnold, 1996. 157-65.*
_____. "Some Call It Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity." 1990. In Feminisms. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. Houndmills: Macmillan, n. d. 913-30.*
_____. "Some Call it Fiction: On the Politics of Domesticity." In Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Bradley, Martha. The British Housewife. The Cook, Housekeeper and Gardiner's Companion. 6 vols. 1756. Vol. 1, introd. Gilly Lehmann. Prospect, 1996.
Davidson, Caroline. A Woman's Work Is Never Done: A History of Housework in the British Isles, 1650-1950. London: Chatto and Windus, 1982.
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. New York: Dell, 1963.
_____. La mística de la feminidad. Introd. Lilí Alvarez. Trans. Carlos R. de Dampierre. Madrid: Júcar, 1974.
Hamer, Mary. "Cleopatra: Housewife." In Hamer, Signs of Cleopatra: History, Politics, Representation. London: Routledge, 1993. 24-44.*
Harrison, John, Wally Seccombe, and Jean Gardner. El ama de casa bajo el capitalismo. (Cuadernos Anagrama 110). Barcelona: Anagrama [1970s].
Johnson, Samuel. "Empleo de un ama de casa en el campo." In Ensayistas ingleses. Ed. Ricardo Baeza. Barcelona: Exito, 1968. 87-91.*
Lerner, Gerda. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. 1977. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.*
Oakley, Ann. Housewife. Penguin.
Peyró, Ignacio. Comimos y bebimos.
Ruskin, John. "Of Queen's Gardens." In Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies. 1865. Homewood Publishing Company, 1902.*
Woolf, Virginia. Killing the Angel in the House. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995.
Films
Far from Heaven. Dir. Todd Haynes. Cast. Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert. DVD. Focus Features /Vulcan Productions, c. 2003.
Journals
Good Housekeeping
Literature
Angelou, Maya. "Woman Work." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 908-9.*
Kaufman, Sue. Diary of a Mad Housewife. Novel. 1967.
_____. Diario de un ama de casa desquiciada. Trans. Milena Busquets. Barcelona: Libros del Asteroide, 2010. 4th ed. 2011.*
Patmore, Coventry. The Angel in the House. 4 parts. 1854-62.
Rich, Adrienne. "Living in Sin." Poem. In Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense. By Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 8th ed. Boston (MA): Thomson Learning-Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 1081-82.*
Zlatar, Andrea. Veliko spremanje: Dnevnik ucene domacice. [Cleaning Up: The Diary of a Learned Housewife]. Zagreb, 1995.
See also Wives; Housework.