In the process of setting some sort of course for the next several years, this was unexpectedly comforting. (Writing anything scholarly, particularly something so patently bullshit-laced as a statement of intent, always precipitates a wide-lens reevaluation of life plans. Plus free time plus the new year's approach, you get the picture.)
Friday, December 26, 2008
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I find it very interesting that McGinley was embracing domesticity at least in part as a reaction to her own upbringing and childhood experience. I think there's a generational shift back to the home because a lot of women who are now coming of age are children of those baby boomers who eschewed the traditional, leaving latch-key children and TV dinners in their wake. Every time I see those kitschy '50's aprons at the mall I see them as a reaction to the feminist movement! Or, more truthfully, to the aftermath of the feminist movement (which opened many, many doors for many, many women).
I liked this article, believe it or not. I think this is what feminism really ought to be - not "imposed ambition" but the freedom to choose to do whatever it is that you love, be that getting a Ph.D. in economics, or making dinner every night for a family of five. Or BOTH. I see no reason to disdain homemaking or traditional mothering just because I want to do it a little differently. Good for Phyllis McGinley!
K-
May I just say, amen. I am particularly glad to have found your blog, or rather that you found mine. I shall be a frequent visitor!
-M
Still applying to Rhet/Comp at BYU? Woot.
I am guessing that today is your BIRTHDAY! I wanted to call you to say happy birthday but to my surprise I do not have your number! eneve though you have mine.... :) Happy birthday!
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