Introducing: Bad Housekeeping
This podcast theorizes bad housekeeping as a form of feminist refusal: an impulse to question the happy housewife, abandon the dishes in the sink, and seek out alternative modes of domesticity.
The first season of Bad Housekeeping takes Shirley Jackson’s work as its lodestar, using her stories about domestic disturbances to explore the contradictions of the postwar fantasy of the good life—an ideal predicated on the dream house, nuclear family, upward mobility, and strict gender roles. Although the war had extended women's roles in public life and the workforce, postwar America revived…
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