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Apparently, the Times couldn't find any women who are secretaries or housewives.
One True Thing doesn't employ fantasy (at least not overtly) but tries to stir similar regrets about the feminist dismissal of housewives: You moved to New York and the heartless magazine world, you dressed in black, you rejected Mom.
To frame the question less contentiously: Did the scattered theologians, bureaucrats, army officers, and (in one case) ordinary housewives who defied Hitler act more as isolated individuals than as a concerted movement?
This is odd because transvestites are openly accepted in Thai society, and male homosexuals are not considered—as they are by some Japanese housewives I have met—as wanting to cross dress.
The celebrity chef launched the gourmet-food craze, made American cooking respectable, empowered housewives, and legitimized public television.