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[bookwormsarah]

I continue my reading of why my feminist perspective (and indeed my attitude to life) is fundementally false...From http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-beautifully-with-new-frugality.html

-Women at home do not need to drink,

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[bluebellbicycle]

Lots of what she has to say is okay eg if you are trying to save money, don't get your hair done. But she's glossing it all with this 'this is how a proper woman acts' kind of shite. So - common sense in some places, rampant sexism and uneducated 'historicism' in others.

*headdesk*

Why is her title not 'people who want to afford to be homemakers' rather than just 'women'.

[nineveh_uk]

She’ll like me - I made a skirt this week from a pattern I shall use again, fabric I already had, a zip I took out of an old pair of trousers, which themselves had been made by taking the pattern from a worn-out pair of trousers (bought in a sale!) , and £5 for thread and lining fabric. Unfortunately it is not sack-shaped, but you can’t have everything

[anonymous]

It seems more 1950s than Victorian, to me. Victorian women were considerably more active than the whole 'angel in the house' stereotype implies. And I suppose that if you choose to live your life in this manner, that's one thing, but advocating it as the One True Way of Proper Womanhood or whatever is just.... wrong. And as you say, it's only something time-rich women could do - either now or in the past.
But who, really, would want to? I often think that women who are obsessed with housework have very empty interior lives. My grandmother, for example, has very few interior resources or interests, but she has a passion(!) for housework that often seems to come before spending precious time with family.

[cavgirl]

It seems more 1950s than Victorian, to me. Victorian women were considerably more active than the whole 'angel in the house' stereotype implies. And I suppose that if you choose to live your life in this manner, that's one thing, but advocating it as the One True Way of Proper Womanhood or whatever is just.... wrong. And as you say, it's only something time-rich women could do - either now or in the past.
But who, really, would want to? I often think that women who are obsessed with housework have very empty interior lives. My grandmother, for example, has very few interior resources or interests, but she has a passion(!) for housework that often seems to come before spending precious time with family.

[ex_robhu]

You don't need to go to the movies or an expensive vacation. You can improvise and substitute things that are free. You do not need to buy seasons tickets or any tickets to ball games and concerts. They are pleasures but not necessarily needs
I wonder if she is aware of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

In the strictest sense of the term need, we don't need jokes and games. I don't think that's what she means though, she has just introduced and arbitrary dividing line somewhere in Maslow's hierarchy.