Status Updates From Something Wicked: Why Femin...

Okay, I have so many topics I'm going to want to follow up with from this book! Like what homemaking was like pre- industrial revolution and what inter-generational familial involvement looked like, as well. Also, I'm very grateful for having an involved and engaged mother who dedicated her life to raising me and my siblings.

I just finished ch 4: The Three Commandments, looking at the 3 main "tenets" of feminism, if you will. Obviously this book merely gives just the merest scratch of the surface when it comes to the intricacies and inner workings of the movement as a whole, but I find it fascinating.

“Feminist influences have manufactured two extremes of womanhood. On one side is the New Woman — the smart, savvy, autonomous woman — and on the other is an unattractive, unthinking doormat, living a life of unemployed maternal drudgery. These are the two public models available to Western women. Very few women understand that a more realistic model of woman exists somewhere in the middle.” Pg 72

This is a very interesting read. I just finished Part 1: The New Woman. It shows the rebellion against and systematic breakdown of the traditional understanding of woman from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Feminism grew up alongside many ideologies that all intersected at certain points, like communism, modernism, and liberalism, and this book makes me want to learn more about them all.