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.
Has anyone else read this book? I'm dying to talk to people about it.
