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Our Year of Hiding from Microwaves
- WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly
- The Feminist Press
- Volume 39, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2011
- pp. 161-166
- 10.1353/wsq.2011.0022
- Article
- Additional Information
In this WSQ prose contribution, Brenda Peynado examines how private and sacred dwellings can be rendered unsafe by common household items like appliances. In doing so, Peynado reveals how intimately the unsafe is woven into the fabric of normal life and family, bringing further illumination to the myth of home as a place of security.