Homeward Bound Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

Name: Homeward Bound Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
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ISBN: 9781451665444

ISBN-10: 145166544X

ISBN-13: 9781451665444

Edition: 2013

Authors: Emily Matchar

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What happens to our society as a whole when smart, high-achieving young women are honing their traditional homemaking skills? Emily Matchar offers a smart investigation into this return to domesticity.There's no doubt about it: domesticity is enjoying a major comeback, with the explosion of “stitch n’ bitch” knitting circles; our sudden fascination with canning, cheese-making, and grinding our own flour; and a tidal wave of memoirs in the “I quit my corporate job and found fulfillment on a Vermont goat farm” vein. Why are women embracing the labor-intense domestic tasks that our mothers and grandmothers so eagerly shrugged off? Why has the image of the blissfully domestic, vintage-clad…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



The Pull of Domesticity in an Era of Anxiety



From Angels in the House to Crunchy Domestic Goddesses: The History of "Women's Work"



June Cleaver 2.0: Bloggers and the Rise of Domestic Chic



Knit Your Own Job: Etsy and the New Handmade Culture



Cupcake Feminists, Hipster Jam Canners, and "Femivores The Rise of the DIY Food Culture



DIY Parenthood



The Emergence of the "Hipster Homemaker": How New Domesticity Appeals to a Generation of Mothers Unhappy with the Workplace



A Woman's (and a Man's) Place Is in the Home After All: The Rise of Homesteading



Strange Bedfellows: How New Domesticity Brings Together liberals and Conservatives, Atheists and Evangelicals, Mormon Moms and Radical Queers, the Rural Poor and the Urban Rich



Take-Home Points for the Homeward Bound: Lessons of New Domesticity


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index