Betty Draper. The Stepford Wives. Bree Van de Kamp. Despite being some of the most iconic female characters on our screens, housewives haven’t exactly been considered feminist icons.
Following the successful campaign for (white) women’s suffrage, the second wave feminists of the 60s and 70s turned much of their attention towards the home: at a time when women’s financial independence was limited, unpaid domestic labour was considered not only the natural place for women to be, but the only place they should be.
