sarah gilbert’s Reviews > Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity > Status Update

Up to this point is intro and history, cleverly selected & written well (but not so well or so clever as Heather Arndt Anderson does). And here is where Emily's thesis gets issued. "The idea -- that feminism, while well-intentioned and important in many ways, went "too far"," destroying homemaking. Emily disagrees. She thinks other forces destroyed homemaking, and today, our domestic activities have other meanings.