Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

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  • Book Name Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
  • Author Name Lisa Selin Davis
  • Item Publish Date 2025 / 01 / 04
  • Barcode 9781538722886
  • Subjects: Self-Help,Relationships,Marriage,Business & Money,Economics,Labor & Industrial Relations,Parenting & Relationships,Family Relationships,Motherhood,Politics & Social Sciences,Social Sciences,Gender Studies,Women's Studies,Feminist Theory,Politics & Government,Specific Topics
  • Synopsis: Amazon's Best Nonfiction Book of the Month for March 2024

    Discover the complete social history of the housewife archetype, from colonial America to the 20th century, and re-examine common myths about the “modern woman.”

    The notion of “housewife” evokes strong reactions. For some, it’s nostalgia for a bygone era, simpler and better times when men were breadwinners and women remained home with the kids. For others, it’s a sexist, oppressive stereotype of women’s work. Either way, housewife is a long outdated concept—or is it?

    Lisa Selin Davis, known for her smart, viral, feminist, cultural takes, argues that the “breadwinner vs. homemaker” divide is a myth. She charts examples from prehistoric female hunters to working class housewives in the 1930s, from First Ladies to 21st century stay-at-home moms, on a search for answers to the problems of what is referred to as women’s work and motherhood. Davis discovers that women have been sold a lie about what families should be. Housewife unveils a truth: interdependence, rather than independence, is the American way.

    The book is a clarion call for all women—married or single, mothers or childless—and for men, too, to push for liberation. In Housewife, Davis builds a case for systemic, cultural, and personal change, to encourage women to have the power to choose the best path for themselves.
  • Pages: 320

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