Sentences with phrase «class housewife»

If you like my Dylan Hunter vigilante hero, you'll love CJ's own tough - as - nails heroine, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino... a sex - crime investigator who lives a double life as a «normal» middle - class housewife.

Wearing elegant hats and looking regal in furs, Carol is an upper - class housewife, a composition in social restraint and prep school hauteur.

The year is 1958, the place New York, and Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is leading the life of the upper - class housewife she'd always imagined for herself... until, that is, her husband, a would - be standup comic, blames her for his failures and takes off, leaving Midge alone with two young children and an upended life.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

If you haven't seen the show, Betty is a more realistic portrayal of what a 1960's upper - middle - class housewife would look like; picture perfect on the outside but trapped and lonely on the inside.

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Similarly, though many would cite, Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique as having triggered the current women's movement, its primary concern was for the white, middle - class American housewife.

The essay begins by challenging a standard historical narrative according to which industrialization forced middle - class women into the role of full - time housewives, a prison from which they were freed only by the glorious revolution of the 1960s.

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne sued over claims he swindled clients out of $ 130 MILLION won in a class The renowned liberal attorney threw ethics out the window to help the movie executive.

The movie, which is set to be released on March 11, 2011, follows a pregnant Electra Luxx, a former porn star, who is trying to make a living teaching a sex education class to housewives.

The only one of his films set in the present day, Safe stars Julianne Moore in one of her earliest upper - class California housewife roles.

Taylor's latest collaboration with Allen, «Blue Jasmine,» opens July 26 and stars Cate Blanchett as an upper - class Manhattan housewife who, in the middle of a personal crisis, heads to the San Francisco home of her working - class sister Ginger.

In what promises to be a dizzying master class in shape - shifting persona swapping, actress Cate Blanchett takes on 13 different roles (including housewife, factory worker, and TV anchor) in German video artist Julian Rosefeldt's experimental whatsit on the inspirational, revolutionary power of the world's most influential art movements.

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.

Set in modern - day India, The Space Between Us is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper - middle - class Parsi housewife and Bhima, a stoic illiterate who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.

Set in modern - day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper - middle - class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.

It's bored middle - class middle - aged housewives buying all that stuff.

Through an array of campy stereotypes that range from a suspicious housewife peering out a window to a Divine-esque drag queen, Gaignard interrogates her own intersectional identity as a biracial woman as well as the often murky, difficult terrain of race, class, and gender in contemporary culture.

Just above this cheeky question — a revised quotation from Richard Hamilton — were three graphite - and - watercolor drawings, all dated 2011, depicting an upper - middle - class Indian housewife engaged in stereotypical activities.