Women of the Upper Class (Women in the Political Economy) by Susan Ostrander
By Susan Ostrander
within the sequence Women within the Political Economy, edited by way of Ronnie J. Steinberg.
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There was never any dissention or anger in this house. " She was the only woman who spoke of the sexual aspect of her responsibilities as wife, noting "sexual compatibility" as a part of making life comfortable for her husband. She added the importance of her looking attractive, saying, "When we go out, , like to know' will look as good as I can. " Mrs. Clarke (the wife of the young corporate lawyer who had just been made a partner in his family's old firm) made a comment similar to Mrs. " When , asked her to whom she turns when everything is going wrong for her, she, like Mrs.
They 've been very kind in their way, but I'll always be an outsider. They've always gone with the same people, and they talk about people I don 't know. " Mrs . Atherton (whose husband heads the city 's most prestigious accounting firm) is, like Mrs . Nesbitt, in the social register and the city's oldest club. She also has felt like an outsider since her move to town and implied that the old-line families were narrow in their social contacts: " I don't have high social standing compared to the Spears or the Brownleys.
They're awfully nice, and they're interested in doing and sharing what they 've been blessed with-education, money, good food, travel, all those things some people don 't have at all. They're interesting intellectually. I suppose there is in each of us that desire to rise to the top. " Mrs. Wilson felt her life was far easier than most people's lives: 27 Copyrighted Material "It's a very unpleasant world, and this is a little island of tranquibty in an otherwise very unattractive world . It's easy to grow up like this.