Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

by Emily Matchar

Book Overview

What happens to our society as a whole when smart, high-achieving young women are honing their traditional homemaking skills? Emily Matchar offers a smart investigation into this return to domesticity. Amid today's rising anxieties--the economy, the scary state of the environment, the growing sense that the American Dream hasn't turned out to be so dreamy after all--a groundswell of women (and more than a few men) are choosing to embrace an unusual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145166544X
• ISBN13: 9781451665444
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"