Critical Perspectives on Wives

Dr. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University and the author of White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity: Purging Matrophobia and Bikini-Ready Moms Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body.Dr. Rebecca Bromwich is a lawyer and legal scholar who is the Director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution program in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She is author and editor of several Demeter Press books.

• • Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, “Introduction”; • Contributor Biographies; Part l: Wife-Work and Mother-Work Today; • Natalie McKnight,” No Time Off for Good Behavior: The Persistence of Victorian Expectations of Wives.”; • Leanne Letourneau, “Invisible Wives: Analyzing the Consequence of `Sameness’”; • Jane Marcellus, “’Office Wife,’ `Two-job Wife,’ `Work Wife’: The Marriage Metaphor in Popular Culture Representation of Women’s Paid Labour.”; • Robyn Pepin, “Mediators’ Perspectives on the Ontario Family Mediation Process and its Potential Impact on Abused Women and Children’s Education.”; • Hinda Mandell, “Birthing New Identities through Wifework and Mothering: The Lineage of Family Narrative in Toddlerhood.”; Part ll – The Work of Wives in Different Cultural Contexts; • Ariadne Gonzales, “Mjueres Trabajadoras” ; • Suzanne Kamata, “Behind the Screens: Mary Elkinton Nitobe and Mary Dardis Noguchi.” ; • Ester Botta Sompare, “Becoming a Good wife in a Guinean Pastoral Society.” ; Part lll –Resisting and Changing Wives’ Roles and Lives ; • Rebecca Bromwich and Beverley Smith, “Espousing Care: Counting `Wife – Work’: Lessons from Canadian Family Law.”; • Holly Willson Holladay, “What is a Wife? Partnering and Mothering in the ABC Family’s The Fosters.”; • Jo Scott-Coe, “Kathy Leissner Whitman and the Mad Men Milieu.” ; • Elisavietta Ritchie, “Aspects of Wifehood” (poem)