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No One's Buying? Good
It was with interest and some relief that I read this New York Times piece about how, while everyone loves to talk about the Stay At Home Mothers versus the Working Mothers books, very very few people are actually buying them.
My bleary eyes popped wide open when I saw that Caitlin Flanagan's incredibly annoying and reactionary sounding book To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife only sold 9,000 copies (hardcover). And apparently this new book by Leslie Bennetts, The Feminine Mistake (Rebecca Mead wrote a review that sums up my sense of this volume's problems)is also getting people all up in arms but not enough to actually buy the thing.
In some ways this is reassuring, because while it is natural for these issues to raise hackles and get people all upset because their fundamental life choices are being criticized (which they are certainly are plenty good at doing for themselves), but they just aren't interesting enough or are perhaps too depressing to shell out $25 and spend the time reading about why everything you're doing is wrong.
And who would have thought Wet Nurses would pop back in style. During this morning's news flip around, there was a piece about what is now apparently called "Cross Nursing". Personally, I can't imagine dedicating myself in this way to someone else's child, though apparently modern wet nurses can earn $1,000/week for their services (and by the way, in the 16th century in England at least, wet nurses really earned quite a lot of money and had all kinds of social and domestic advantages).
But I'm just now revisiting the breastfeeding life and I'm in the "hurts like the Dickens" stage of things, so I'm not perhaps in the best frame of mind.
posted by Elise at 3:57 AM
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