In her kitchen is a watercolor painting of a house surrounded by trees, with the words "To Janet Huckabee, 1995 full-time homemaker of the year, presented by the Eagle Forum and Phyllis Schlafly".
He was a white bricklayer and she was a homemaker of African-American and Native American descent, and all they wanted was to be married and to live in Virginia, near their families.
But just as the '70s feminist obsession with housework gave way to sex-positivity, girl-power and reproductive choice, the vestigial housewife of the 1950s morphed into the turbo "homemaker" of the 1980s, the anxious "soccer mom" of the '90s, the overscheduled "SAHM" (stay at home mom) of today and possibly, next, the radical home-schooling homesteader of the post-apocalypse.
Her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell (1919 2011), was a homemaker of English, Scottish, French, and Welsh descent.
A stay-at-home dad (alternatively, stay at home father, house dad, SAHD, househusband, or house-spouse) is a father who is the main caregiver of the children and is the homemaker of the household.
Pat Nixon was named Outstanding Homemaker of the Year (1953), Mother of the Year (1955), and the Nation's Ideal Housewife (1957), and once admitted that she pressed all of her husband's suits one evening.
Noreen Barry was, externally, like most American homemakers of that period: deliberately average.
But don't think that millions of men and women are tying on aprons and emulating homemakers of old.
Homemakers of that era stuck to their pumps and cinched waists; their daughters rolled up the cuffs of their jeans.
These included most extracurricular activities, among them the chorus, the band, the Future Farmers and Future Homemakers of America, the cheerleading squad and the academic team.
Automatons, some fearsome, some friendly, populate a flurry of summer films, among them, of course, the pneumatic digital homemakers of "The Stepford Wives" and the elegantly attenuated silicone-and-metal men of "I, Robot".
