Images of feminine domesticity in two unusual shows at the Morean Arts Center

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By Megan Voeller Perhaps most of all for the jewish women who lived it, the happy homemaker femininity of the 1950s -- or at least, its presence as myth, regardless of how the ideal played out in real kitchens -- may have seemed a puzzle. Literally, a jigsaw-like interlocking of household chores and social diversions (or obligations), powered by post-war consumerism -- the roots of today's ...

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