VOCABULARY LIST (Clara, Lina, Lucie)
The housework / women’s household duties
a wife
-> two wives.
to iron
= repasser.
to mend
sth [the
washing machine] = réparer la
machine à
laver.
To do
the grocery shopping =
faire les courses dans une épicerie.
to take
care of the children
to cook ->
a wife has to be a good cook.
to clean up the
house
to entertain
people -> to
receive (someone) as
a guest and provide them with food and
drink
overworked
women.
an
overload of work
Women’s need to multitask
What the wife has to do
chores (pronounce
as “children”) = a
routine task,
esp. a household one.
household
tasks
She
has to
juggle her
professional life and her carrier.
The wife is seen as a baby-sitter, a
nurse (because she has to take care of her children and her husband), a
cleaning lady, a cook, a psychologist, a prostitute or at least a sexual object
with no desire of her own.
The husband as depicted by Brady
childish = immature -> men are babied by their wives
uninvolved in his children’s education
self-centered -> satisfied with himself, feeling superior
unloving, uncaring -> he has no feelings for his wife.
a bully = a tyrant (tyrannical) -> he’s impatient, he behaves like a spoiled child
a lack of relationship: the wife is reduced to a set of functions
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