Charlotte Colbert: Do writers and housewives share a common madness that comes from their isolation?

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/charlotte-colbert-do-writers-and-housewives-share-a-common-madness-that-comes-from-their-isolation-8963131.html

"Screenwriting is a very strange occupation. It mostly involves being on your own in a room with a bunch of fictional characters: your body tied down to its chair while you converse and live in a would-be world with imaginary people. It is very solitary and some of my screenwriting friends describe their office as their cell. Locked in with your computer and fantasies. A kind of awake dreaming. A sort of semi-acceptable madness or schizophrenia. As Marguerite Duras said: "Solitude is always accompanied by madness." It is filled with rituals, compulsiveness, superstitions and habits." 

Man Ray – Le Violon D’Angres.

Inspired by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Baigneuse, Ray used Kiki de Montparnasse wearing a turban as a model for this piece. He transformed the female body into a musical instrument by painting sound-holes on her back, playing with the idea of objectification of an animate body. Throughout his career Man Ray was fascinated with juxtaposing an object with a female body.

Japy Factory III - Marianne Maric - Lamp Girl

Lamp Girls by Marianne Maric

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/17/lamp-girls-by-marianne-maric/

These “lamp-girls” were first conceived as an illustration of the woman as a thing conveyed by the “entertainment world,” but gradually ascending to a state of consciousness. These photographs were part of a broader vision: once the costume was finished, the “living” model put it on and took place on a white rotating base into a dark room. The public had the choice to turn on or off the lamp, the dress, the girl, the room. I wanted to “immortalize” this moment when a woman become a simple household appliance. That is how these photographs were born.

EVOLUTION OF THE FEMALE IMAGE THROUGH THE CENTURIES

A Day in the Life of a 1950's Housewife

A fictitious take on becoming a 50's housewife.
 http://hubpages.com/hub/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-50s-Housewife

I confess,that in my darker days of struggle, I've thought about being a 50's housewife . Were they really Stepford-like, robotic creatures under the economic, social and political thumb? What would a day in the life of a 1950's housewife really be like..? Cue music and fade-out for dream sequence....
(Of course, as in any age, just what sorts of freedoms and privileges you enjoy has a lot to do with economic status but since I want to enjoy myself, I'll opt for a comfortable, middle-class fantasy).
Jane Bovary

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2286549/Perfect-50s-housewife-myth-busted-They-didnt-time-immaculate-home-AND-achieve-flawless-look.html

The perfect 50s housewife myth busted: How women didn't have time to keep an immaculate home AND achieve flawless look:

This is a really interesting read; We all have these predeceived views of how woman where like in the 50's, a perfect representation of an ideal woman. Perfect looking house and woman, with the dinner on the table and a cup of tea at the ready. However it seems that realistically these woman would not have enough time for this perfect idea. Most would have jobs, and the household chores where more laborious then we could imagine. How could they keep this perfect facade of utopia whilst still gleaming with a beautiful made up face, clothes and house? The truth it seems that, they couldn't.