One of our most instinctive exhibitionists tries to disappear into the role of an overweight hausfrau too ashamed to venture outside her own backdoor.

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One pleasant legacy of the DDR and the communist expectation for women to work - almost every elderly woman in Wittenberge has built up a tidy contributions-based pension (compared to her traditional West German "Hausfrau" counterpart).

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In Hamburg last week several big food producers including Monsanto, an American agricultural group, drew up an action plan which includes leaflets, websites, materials for schools and telephone hotlines including one dedicated to Germany's formidable Hausfrau association.

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Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.

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