Radical Homemakers

[Homemaker]

Radical Homemakers is a book by Shannon Hayes. I purchase it over the summer. And I am still in love with it. I am continually going back to reread sections. I went through and highlighted a bunch of stuff. My husband looked at it and asked if highlighting was really necessary since apparently everything required highlighting (every page is all marked up.) I couldn't help it. Has anyone else read this book? I'm dying to talk to people about it.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Wanna share highlights for those that have not read it?

 

[Henrietta23]

Haven't read it but I have heard of it! I just got a Borders gift card from a Cub Scout in my den. I may just use it towards that book so we can talk about it!
SS bookclub!! Cool!

 

[abifae]

Hey now. That's a GREAT idea. A book club thread. Someone makes us all read a book a month and we discuss it?!?

 

[tortoise]

Hey now. That's a GREAT idea. A book club thread. Someone makes us all read a book a month and we discuss it?!?

I hope the library has those books.

 

[Boogity]

Hey now. That's a GREAT idea. A book club thread. Someone makes us all read a book a month and we discuss it?!?

That's a great idea. And maybe a book exchange with our own pinned topic to list the available books.

 

[Homemaker]

This book is not just for women. Men can be homemakers too.
Here's the blurb on the back of the book:
Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps neccessary to solve our global crises: reduce driving, consume less, increase our self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities. In essence, the great work we face requires re-kindling the home fires.
Radical Homemakers is about men and women across the U.S. 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. It explores what domesticity looks like in an era that has benefited from feminism, where domination and oppression are cast aside, where the choice to stay home is no longer drudgery, economic insecurity or relentless servitude.
Radical Homemakers nation-wide speak about empowerment, transformation, happiness, and casting aside the pressures of a consumer culture to live in a world where money loses its power to relationships, independent thought and creativity. If you ever considered quitting a job to plant tomatoes, read to a child, pursue creative work, can green beans and heal the planet, this is your book.


I love the idea about starting a book club thread! I've already had quite a few good book suggestions come from SS members. I would love to get some more.

 

[Denim Deb]

I don't know about a book club thread per se, but I'd like to see a forum for book and product review. It would be used for people to ask about a specific product or book that they're wanting to buy so they know whether or not it's worth it, or a waste of money and for people to talk about a book or product that they've just bought. Right now there's no set place for that type of question, and it can be hard to find a specific thread that deals w/whatever you're looking for.

 

[Wifezilla]

You lost me at "climate change".

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

You lost me at "climate change".

ditto