As Olivia Wilde’s period thriller Don’t Worry Darling hits the big screen, Alys Key asks what’s behind our perennial fascination with the desperate housewife in popular culture.
“We are told that although mothers can never live up to these unrealistic expectations, they put on a mask of perfect motherhood and rarely speak of their trials and tribulations,” she explains.“We are therefore drawn to stories of struggling and strained mothers and housewives in a suburban setting because it makes those of us who are ourselves harried and hurried feel better about our own domestic efforts.
Housewives of the screen often have extreme responses to this dissatisfaction. In desperation, the mother in the 1979 legal dramawalks out on her family life. Others seek to limit the expansion of their family obligations by turning to DIY or backstreet abortions, as. They get divorced, have affairs, and even turn to violence.Desperate Housewives
The show is notable for grappling with the concerns of modern-day housewives, when many other stories prefer to situate the struggles of housewives in the past. The word ‘housewife’, too, is now something of a relic from a bygone age; these days, we defer to the more family-oriented ‘stay-at-home mother’ or ‘full-time parent’.
Professor Shani Orgad of the London School of Economics says this could be to do with the way contemporary society prizes the role of ‘mother’, but hardly discusses the role of ‘wife’. In her book, Orgad interviewed women who had put their successful careers on hold to take care of children.
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