Posted on April 13, 2007. Filed under: Gender roles, marriage, work | Tags: Dr. Laura, Gender roles, Helen Andelin, Homemaking, housekeeping, housework, husband, porn for women, work |
The recent hype about the book “Porn for Women” has gotten me thinking. Yes, I can laugh about how nice it would be to have a hunky man-slave to cook, clean, and to listen to everything I say. But is that what I really want? Hmm…
I think the reason this idea has resonance [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2006. Filed under: Mormon Life, Mormon women, women, work | Tags: cleaning, cleaning lady, Homemaking, housecleaning, housekeeping, SAHM |
In the past few weeks I’ve learned that almost everyone I know that’s not a full-time SAHM (and even a few of those, too) have a weekly cleaning lady. I was pretty surprised to learn this, mostly because some of these women live in miniscule grad student apartments and live on a miniscule budgets [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2006. Filed under: Mormon women, humor, motherhood | Tags: cleaning, domesticity, Homemaking, Louise Plummer |
When I was a SAHM to two toddlers I attended a FHPE Meeting where LDS author Louise Plummer was the guest speaker. She challenged each of us to write more often in our journals, and not just write the ‘typical’ types of entries, but to make interesting lists.
Louise suggested that we empty out our [...]
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