Mother Moira has just taken delivery of a book called: Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture. Heres what it says on the back of the book: Mother Nature has shown her hand. Faced with climate change, dwindling resources, and species extinctions, most Americans (and hopefully Australians) understand the fundamental steps necessary 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 centre 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 at home is no longer equated with mind-numbing 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 Sounds interesting doesnt it? Watch this space :0)
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:00:46 +0000
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