Made from Scratch by Jean Zimmerman
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Overview: A stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of “women’s work,” Made from Scratch addresses the tug that many Americans feel between our professional and private lives.
In this stunning celebration and reappraisal of the importance of “women’s work,” acclaimed journalist Jean Zimmerman poignantly addresses the tug that many Americans of the twenty-first century feel between our professional and private lives. With sharp wit and intelligence, she offers evidence that in the current domestic vacuum, we still long for a richer home life – a paradox visible in the Martha Stewart phenomenon, in the continuing popularity of women’s service magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, and Ladies’ Home Journal – whose combined circulation of over 17 million is nearly twice the combined circulation of Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report – and the booming business of restorations, where onlookers get a hands-on view of domestic life as it flourished in past centuries. This book is about the ways home traditions passed from one generation to the next – baking a birthday cake from scratch, cherishing family heirlooms, or discovering the satisfaction of piecing a quilt – sustain our souls, especially in our ever more processed, synthetic world, where we buy “homemade” goods and fail to see the irony in that.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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