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Review title: The Model Wife - an outmoded concept
Product review: "The Model Wife" strikes this reviewer as a publication to avoid. The title itself has two major implications, neither of them positive. One suggests wife as passive object for the husband/creator's pleasure. The second, that there is such a thing as a perfect wife, defined of course by male expectations.Ollman in fact admits that "the power over the images...rests with the husbands and explicitly not with their wives." He claims he cannot find similar work by women taken of their spouses. They are out there, of course, in talent and in abundance, but he cannot "see" them and does not give them credence.Other biases in the book are objectionable as well. Do we really need to know which artists are Jewish or half-Jewish? Are Baptists so designated? Paternity is called "siring" - are we talking here of horses or humans?Given these inherent stumbling blocks, it is difficult to see this book as anything more than a male hierarchy extending its grip on history.
