Edith goes through menopause in the second season ("Edith's Problem"), discovers a lump in her breast just before Christmas in the fourth season ("Edith's Christmas Story"), is nearly raped on her 50th birthday in the eighth season ("Edith's 50th Birthday"), and develops phlebitis in the show's final episode in season nine ("Too Good Edith").
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She was decidedly less bigoted than Archie (e.g., she was good friends with her black neighbor Louise Jefferson, while Archie was always at odds with her and husband George, and she acknowledged that she'd voted for President Jimmy Carter in one of the later episodes).
Taller than Brutus, with blond hair, she's rather similar to Edith "Dingbat" Bunker.
This constellation of cultural issues has been explored in the popular media, for example, the television shows, Roseanne or All in the Family featuring Archie Bunker and his wife Edith Bunker.
Edith Cowan University | Edith Wharton | bunker | Édith Piaf | Archie Bunker | Edith Pargeter | Edith Durham | Battle of Bunker Hill | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Edith Piaf | Edith Sitwell | Edith Evans | Edith Cavell | Edith Mathis | Edith Head | Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. | Edith Bowman | Edith Abbott | Bunker Hill | Lady Edith Foxwell | Edith Stein | Edith McGuire | Edith | Bunker Hill, West Virginia | Archie Bunker's Place | Edith Picht-Axenfeld | Edith González | Edith Flagg | Edith Craig | Edith Bunker |