• Mousumi Biswal

Just a ‘Housewife’: Unpacking Domestic Stress of Women in the Short Film “Juice” Mousumi Biswal, Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi Abstract A housewife has been defined as "a woman responsible for running her home, whether she performs the tasks herself or hires people to do them" (Lopata, 1971). The word ‘housewife’ is the product of marriage between capitalism and patriarchy where ‘House’ indicates the site of labour – the private sphere, and with ‘wife’ being an ascribed status in relation to a man legally bound as a husband through the marriage contract. The role of a married woman as house wife is to perform domestic labour in the home without being paid in terms of leave or rest to keep herself decompressed from the assigned gender roles. This paper uncovers the unnoticed stress that is suffered by the housewives while the working men have holidays to revive their work stress. It examines the trammel that housewives experience in their everyday lives in the Hindi short film “ Juice” and the need for leisure. With a psychological and textual analysis of the short film, the research paper communicates domestic stress which also exposes the gender disparity in domestic roles.

Housewife, Kitchen, Domestic roles, Domestic stress, Leisure

"Just a ‘Housewife’: Unpacking Domestic Stress of Women in the Short Film “Juice” ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.j324-j331, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403945.pdf

"Just a ‘Housewife’: Unpacking Domestic Stress of Women in the Short Film “Juice” ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppj324-j331, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403945.pdf