ABSTRACT
Leslie Maltz regards herself as a California housewife, “virtually a byword for conventionality,” as a magazine reporter put it (Adler, 1999, p. 76). But a while back she ventured outside her comfort zone. She had her navel pierced and put “a diamondstudded horseshoe through it.” As a result, she no longer regards herself as a housewife. “I feel like a sex symbol,” she says (Adler, 1999, p. 76).
