The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry

Author:Wendell Berry [Berry, Wendell]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781619026964
Publisher: Counterpoint

* She did continue to do “housework,” of course. But we must ask what this had come to mean. The industrial economy had changed the criterion of housekeeping from thrift to convenience. Thrift was a complex standard, requiring skill, intelligence, and moral character, and private thrift was rightly considered a public value. Once thrift was destroyed as a value, housekeeping became simply a corrupt function of a corrupt economy: its public “value” lay in the wearing out or using up of commodities.

* At the root of this failure is probably another sexual division: the assignment to women of virtually all responsibility for sexual discipline.

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