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Archives for August 2015
Radical Home Making
A great companion reader to Genevieve Kineke’s The Authentic Catholic Woman is Shannon Hayes’ non-religious Radical Homemakers. Hayes shares the stories of a number of families who are coming up with surprising new answers to the old feminist questions about how women find fulfillment. She frames a diverse collection of approaches with the four tenets of a life-serving economy: 1) Respect and care for the community of life; 2) Ecological integrity; 3) Social and economic justice; 4) Democracy, nonviolence and peace. Catholics will find it easy to orient their concern for community and environment within the larger context of Church teachings about stewardship, social justice, and the recapitulation of the human person.
Radical homemakers, as Hayes ably demonstrates through anecdotal and historical evidence, are helping turn homes back into the havens of creative generativity and interdependence that, hopefully, will lure people away from the ‘extractive economy’ of corporate tyranny and media manipulation that predominates in our culture. The skill set she prescribes for this radical new culture-building includes familiar domestic arts and less-familiar capabilities like nurturing relationships, self-teaching, redefining pleasure, and having the courage to be counter-cultural. Intelligent, energetic, creative young women are going to love this manifesto for the reclamation of authentic home-culture, however they choose to put their energies and talents to work for the world!
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