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Overview


Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans understand the fundamental steps necessary to solve our global crises-drive less, consume less, increase self-reliance, buy locally, eat locally, rebuild our local communities.

In essence, the great work we face requires rekindling 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, and who have centered 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 and where the choice to stay home is no longer equated with mind-numbing drudgery, economic insecurity, or relentless servitude.

Radical Homemakers nationwide 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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780979439117
  • Publisher: Left to Write Press
  • Publication date: 3/11/2010
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 180,190
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author


Shannon Hayes is the host of grassfedcooking.com and author of The Farmer and the Grill and The Grassfed Gourmet. She has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and works with her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in upstate New York. Learn more at radicalhomemakers.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Preface Tomato-Canning Feminists 1

Introduction Radical Homemaking-Politics, Ecology and Domestic Arts 7

Part 1 Why 21

Chapter 1 A Woman's Place 23

Chapter 2 Home Economics 49

Chapter 3 From Self-Reliance to Commodification 61

Chapter 4 Home Wreckers

Part 2 How 107

Meet The Radical Homemakers 109

Chapter 5 Housekeeping 115

Chapter 6 Reclaiming Domestic Skills 184

Chapter 7 Toward A Homegrown Culture 249

Profiles Study Participants 256

Endnotes 277

Index 295

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 12, 2010

    Motivating

    Radical Homemakers is very motivating and reminds about the negative impact of our consumer driven culture in America. I was aware of many of the cultural trends and their impact. I like the way the author links
    it back to our loss of the art of homemaking and promotes this as a cure for many of the ecological problems. It provides the reader with some practical solutions for ways they can become involved in helping the saving the planet for everyone. It pushes us to value homemaking in modern society as a means to develop a society that functions better for producing healthier , happier, individuals and a heathier, happier, society and a whole. This fits right into my individual philosophy that we must take care of our home health,wealth and security as much as possible.

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  • Posted May 10, 2010

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    Inspiring !!!!

    I came across an article about Radical Homemakers in a Hobby Farm Home magazine. I could hardly wait to get the book. I read it everyday until I was finished. What an encouragement to hear the different stories and life changing experiences.Just in a month I have put in my first garden in a 4x4 area and in cement blocks along my house wall. Just yesterday (after six weeks)I picked three different kinds of lettuce for a salad (these were planted from seeds)along green peppers, basil, oregano,and parsley (planted from small starter plants to put in a sauce.I am truly amazed that it could be so simple and so quick to get results. I thank Shannon Hayes for sharing her incite for bringing another dimension to the importance of homemaking and how we are all capable of making better choices for our family as well a community. The fine art of community needs a come back and this book give great ideas to help you get started with making that happen. one step at a time.

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  • Posted May 8, 2012

    Not quite what I expected but still well-written.

    I was hoping for more 1st person stories and examples about how people are managing w/what society considers radical homemaking (or what I like to refer as "my life"). Unfortunately, the book focused heavily upon empirical data rather than individuals. I spent a lot of time nodding and going "YUP" but then again she was preaching to the choir. It would make a great book to give to someone who doesn't understand why you living your life as a urban homesteader, why you aren't using that college degree in the way your parents had imagined, or why consumerism is not the focus of your lifestyle. It should help clarify any misperceptions they have and validate your own feelings. Just don't plan on learning much of anything from the author.

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    Posted May 28, 2010

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