3/25/10

The Femivore's Dilemma

An article on women returning to the earth in their own backyards.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/magazine/14fob-wwln-t.html?scp=1&sq=femivore%27s%20dilemma&st=cse

Interesting, this "new" idea of family self-sufficiency through what, one hundred years ago, was simply homemaking, something every woman was expected to be able to do. But why does it have to be a gendered undertaking? And is this just a new way for working-class, stay-at-home mothers to categorize themselves?

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