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Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From A Consumer Culture (2010)

by Shannon Hayes(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0979439116 (ISBN13: 9780979439117)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Left to Write

review 1: Left off on page 69. I really want to finish reading the book, as I feel it has great thoughts about homemaking in today's world. However, I am buried in adoption prep and will have to come back to this one.Favorite passages so far:"Universities should not be facilities merely for employee training with the aim of generating a qualified labor pool for corporations and top-drawer firms. The purpose of higher education should be to prepare students to perpetually teach themselves, cultivate their interests, talents and skills, and ultimately use them to serve their communities in a meaningful way. At this point in human history, it is incumbent upon educational institutions to consider how their services are preparing our students to restructure our society along the partner... moreship model, so that we may be a true Earth Community where we recreate our civilization to live harmoniously on the planet, allow plenty for all, and recover our ecological health" (38)."What Friedan understood, but what many of us ultimately forgot, is that simply landing a job does not guarantee self-actualization. At the same time, the homemaker who simply learns to cook dinner, keep a garden and patch blue jeans will probably not find deep fulfillment, either. Those who do not seriously challenge themselves with a genuine life plan, with the intent of taking a constructive role in society, will share the same dangers as the housewives who suffered under the mystique of feminine fulfillment; they face what Friedan called a "nonexistent future" (46).
review 2: "I honor that man whose ambition is, not to win laurels in state or the army, not to be a jurist or a naturalist, not to be a poet or a commander, but to be a master of living well." - EmersonRadical Homemakers is an inspiring book about men and women who focus on home and hearth as a political and ecological act; who center their lives around family and community for personal fulfillment and cultural change. less

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