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Offeringresistant readings that rely on close attention to the particular culturaland semiotic environments in which plays and their audiencesoperated, she sheds compelling light on the changing debatesabout women’s roles and the importance of their household laboracross lines of class and race in the twentieth century.  The story begins just after World War I, as more households wereelectrified and fewer middleclass housewives could afford to hiremaids. In the 1920s, popular mainstream plays staged the plightof women seeking escape from the daily grind; African Americanplaywrights, meanwhile, argued that housework was the least ofwomen’s worries. Plays of the 1930s recognized housework aswork to a greater degree than ever before, while during the waryears domestic labor was predictably recruited to the war effort—sometimes with genderbending results. In the famously quiescentand anxious 1950s, critiques of domestic normalcy became common,and African American maids gained a complexity previouslyreserved for white leading ladies. These critiques proliferated withthe reemergence of feminism as a political movement from the1960s on. After the turn of the century, the problems and comfortsof domestic labor in black and white took center stage. 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