To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife, (Paperback)

from goodnightmoon

Some good and thought-provoking ideas, but what was her point? Each unrelated chapter left me struggling to discern a clear message. Liberal feminists base their freedoms on the exploitation of poorer minority women, but the author IS a liberal feminist who isn't a feminist, and she employs poore...

from keely_chace

In this book, Flanagan shows herself to be a highly entertaining writer with an uncanny ability to put her finger on and unpack the issues that vex today's wives and mommies. She points out inconvenient truths, such as the reality that something is lost in family life when there's no grown-up at ...

from aliciamalia

Flanagan writes for a variety of publications on various aspects of modern womanhood--having children, having a nanny, balancing work and house cleaning, our desire to be Martha Stewart and CEO, etc. She's very good at calling it like it is. I can't say that I'm going to change anything about my ...

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Is it ironic that I listened to this while doing household chores? The author gave me some insights about certain other women, but she really does over-generalize, because the insights didn't apply to me or to other mothers I know. I did like the poignant bit comparing Erma Bombeck to Betty Fried...

from tealightful

I struggled with this book immensely. While I agreed with [what I discerned to be] some of her core points - that the housewife decision is not one to be ashamed of, that not all gender roles are oppressive, etc - I found her to be an extremely unlikeable voice. It appeared to me that her opinion...