Radical Homemakers

I am currently reading Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes. It is an inspiring book, not what I expected it to be. As one review I read, by Hank Will of GRIT magazine put it so well:

Radical Homemakers is eloquent, engaging, thorough – a veritable bumper crop of research, field notes and beautifully crafted arguments that are, quite frankly, tough to dispute. Shannon Hayes leads the reader through cultural evolutionary changes that reduced our homes, once bustling centers of production shared by all family members, to the cold, disconnected, consumption-driven places they are today. Radical Homemakers shows us that once we traded our survival skills and domestic skills for post industrial revolution cash, we became victims of our own need to consume to survive. And Radical Homemakers makes it painfully clear that consuming to survive, the way we do, has pointed us on a class-stratifying path of environmental and emotional destruction that is not sustainable, not healthy and not very forward looking (or thinking).

Check out the Authors website: www.radicalhomemakers.com, where you can order a copy and share your own Radical Homemaking story.