Feminism + Housewifery
I realize the rest of the feminist internet is going to disagree with me on this one, but I loved this Elizabeth Wurtzel piece on 1% housewives.
Is it mean? Yes. Is it representative of most women’s lives? No. But maybe it’s time modern “internet feminism” made room for polemics and hard-nosed viewpoints and positioned itself as a serious social movement, instead of focusing on identity and making everyone feel good.
...read moreAwkward conversations
First off, this will be my last post of the week. It’s been lovely and I’m so pleased to have had the opportunity. So come by and chat at my blog if you’re so inclined. I figured that for my last post, I’d go for a little navel gazing and then one last picture of [...]
...read moreThose Never-Ending Mommy Wars
I considered avoiding the Linda Hirshman debacle-in-progress, but what the hell. It goes like this: A while back, Hirshman wrote a piece for The American Prospect in which she argued that working was better for women than staying at home. Now she’s essentially expanded it into a book, and touched on some of the issues [...]
...read moreThe Parent Trap
How much has really changed since Betty Friedan’s day? Well, lots, but it seems to be more of the same in the lives of many woman. I first encountered “The Feminine Mystique” in college, in 1986. We read it not in women’s studies, but in a class on intellectual history; and indeed, from the vantage [...]
...read moreMotherhood vs. Careers: The Yale Side
Half-Changed World has more on the NYTimes article pitting working moms against stay-at-home moms that Jill discusses here. One of the stories that floated around when I attended is that Yale used to have a goal of admitting “1000 Leaders of the Future” each year. Then they decided to admit women (in 1969!), but they [...]
...read moreRick Santorum and Pitting the Working Mothers Against the “Non-Losers”
Chuck pointed out this letter to the editor in our local paper that I seem to have missed: I’m in my own little world apparently. Every day I wake up with two happy kids, even when I go out the door for work. I work nights, my husband works days and due to the rising [...]
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