Only A Housewife In Sentenced To Everyday Life By Justine Lloyd

Lesley Johnson and Justine Lloyd wrote ‘Only a Housewife’ in Sentenced to Everyday Life focuses on the disagreement of whether or not women in the 1950s and 1960s can be ‘happy housewives’. This led to a debate in many sociology journals and popular media in Britain, Australia and USA. The articles printed in the Australian press explore the related issues that women concerned with their relationships, and the balance of work and family life. Once the figure of ‘good housewife’ was created in the society, some women have decided to be independent and professional to achieve success at the expense of their children. While others chose the alternative, because they are home-centred mother or anti-working women, they are more likely to be settled into domesticity rather than full-time employee. However, women who
She was a feminist intellectual and who proposed women to develop a life plans as women. This is a solution to the crises of women’s identity in the modern society. In addition, Friedan’s stories are told as a housewife in linear narrative. This reveal the fact that most women have ambivalence and anxiety towards their future life. In ‘Only a Housewife’ written by Johnson and Lloyd, it mentioned that Friedan as a housewife was ‘claiming herself to have also been trapped within the feminine mystique’. The rhetorical strategy she used was successful and build a connection between women in a shared community. Similarly, Simone De Beauvoir claimed that the women are confined in their housewife role and it was also asserted that she ‘believed that their engagement in these activities prevents women from achieving or pursuing self-actualisation or self-realisation.’ Therefore, it is clear that feminist intellectuals have advocated women to undertake the project of self-actualisation or self-realisation, in the nineteenth and in the first decades of the twentieth