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Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
Little, Brown
April 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0316736872
Hardcover
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From Caitlin Flanagan, The New Yorker's most entertaining
and acerbic wit--a controversial reassesment of the rituals
and events that shape women's lives: weddings, sex,
housekeeping, and motherhood. Caitlin Flanagan, the
hilarious and hotly disputed social critic, compares the
rituals and experiences that shaped the fifties housewife
with those that have forged the modern woman, and arrives at
some surprising conclusions. In her signature
prose--bitingly funny and brutally honest--Flanagan examines
everything from the contemporary white wedding craze to the
epidemic of undersexed marriages. Whether she is reporting
on the mommy wars, the anti-clutter movement, or America's
new nanny culture, her book reveals both the high cost women
pay for devoting themselves to the people they love, and
also the matchless rewards that come from such a sacrifice.
Caitlin Flanagan began her magazine-writing career at the
Atlantic Monthly in 2001 with a series of essays on modern
family life that became an immediate sensation and the
subject of an ongoing and heated national discussion. Now a
staff writer for The New Yorker, her essays are passed from
friend to friend, challenged and championed in the media,
and often made the subject of book group discussions. With
its insightful observations and trenchant conclusions, To
Hell With All That will generate controversy and serious
media attention while it also delights and enlightens
readers across the country.
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