"This play is not about my mother and me," she says, moments before the actress playing her mother, Ann, a Midwestern housewife collapsed in a La-Z-Boy, awakens.

She currently has an upcoming television pilot for NBC called Save Me, scheduled to air in mid-2013, in which she plays a Midwestern housewife who believes she is channeling God.

Ms. Hennigan's equally likable Carly is an utterly conventional Midwestern housewife who begins to blossom from the moment she falls in love.

From 1965 to 1996, Erma Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns chronicling the ordinary life of a midwestern suburban housewife with broad, and sometimes eloquent humor.

For the show's duration, Search was centered on a midwestern housewife named Joanne Gardner (played for the entire run by Mary Stuart) who lived in a fictional town called Henderson.

Then there's Fern, a Midwestern housewife who enjoys baking because the ingredients don't get involved in conflicts with one another or talk back to her.

During the 1950's, Evelyn Ryan was a Midwestern housewife with 10 children and a husband who drank away his factory salary as regularly as he earned it.

Set in the '60s, Doug Stone's new play features a group of midwestern housewives at a Tupperware party.

Working during World War II, Kurt Lewin conducted field research initially among Midwestern housewives to determine how to effectively change their families' food consumption during this time of war.

Stuart was cast as a midwestern housewife called Joanne Gardner.