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The Broom Closet explores the sacred, psychological, erotic, and sometimes murderous power of housework, using surprising examples from postfeminist novels by Louise Erdrich. Mary Gordon, Toni Morrison, Marge Piercy, Jane Smiley, and Amy Tan. By juxtaposing the novels and their authors' lives with general social and historical context, the book outlines the many ways domestic ritual continues to shape women's consciousness - and either foil or reflect women's creativity.
"Jeannette Batz Cooperman's 'The Broom Closet' is an intelligent, literary account of how women's power is still subverted and divided by the other of the world's oldest professions - housekeeping. In it, Cooperman viscerally and clearly expresses the conflict still felt by the creative woman in her search for wholeness. She expresses what I see my women students going through, and what I have gone through for my whole life. I put the book right up there with the more important works of the last half-century on our status as women - indeed, I plan to recommend it to all my women students and friends." (Rosemary Daniell, author of 'The Woman Who Spilled Words All Overself', and other books)
"'The Broom Closet' offers a down-to-earth exploration of contemporary women novelists' domestic leanings and meanings. With elegant, lively prose wonderfully free of the jargon of literary criticism, Cooperman uncovers the many ways in which the daily tasks and rhythms of homemaking weave their way into life and literature." (Elaine Tyler May, Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota)
"A wonderful blend of cultural studies and literary analysis that engages the reader by its deep intelligence, its fine writing and its keen sensitivity to the ways 'housework' can function as ritual practice as well as drudgery, contructing as well as deconstructing personal identity." (Belden C. Lane, Professor of Theological Studies and American Studies, Saint Louis University, author of 'The Solace of Fierce Landscapes')
"A rare book about common things, engagingly written. Dr. Cooperman includes just enough of the personal to satisfy those scholars who want a critic to situate herself vis-à-vis the text and context and to delight those who love gossip. Dr. Cooperman's obvious grounding in and comfort with the universes of academia, domesticity, and journalism give this consideration of domestic ritualdepth, rigor, and range sure to reward the academic reader and to delight the discretionary reader." (Susan Koppelman, Ph.D., literary historian and editor of 'Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories about Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994' and 'Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a Generation'.)
"'The Broom Closet' offers a down-to-earth exploration of contemporary women novelists' domestic leanings and meanings. With elegant, lively prose wonderfully free of the jargon of literary criticism, Cooperman uncovers the many ways in which the daily tasks and rhythms of homemaking weave their way into life and literature." (Elaine Tyler May, Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota)
"A wonderful blend of cultural studies and literary analysis that engages the reader by its deep intelligence, its fine writing and its keen sensitivity to the ways 'housework' can function as ritual practice as well as drudgery, contructing as well as deconstructing personal identity." (Belden C. Lane, Professor of Theological Studies and American Studies, Saint Louis University, author of 'The Solace of Fierce Landscapes')
"A rare book about common things, engagingly written. Dr. Cooperman includes just enough of the personal to satisfy those scholars who want a critic to situate herself vis-à-vis the text and context and to delight those who love gossip. Dr. Cooperman's obvious grounding in and comfort with the universes of academia, domesticity, and journalism give this consideration of domestic ritualdepth, rigor, and range sure to reward the academic reader and to delight the discretionary reader." (Susan Koppelman, Ph.D., literary historian and editor of 'Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories about Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994' and 'Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a Generation'.)