Caitlin Flanagan, as it turns out, is no happy housewife quietly tending to husband and child, but a "domestic diva" who delegates the actual housework to the less fortunate, leaving her free to wax eloquent about the virtues of homemaking in lengthy essays in the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Just read this after reading the Op Ed by Catlin Flanagan today, January 13, 2007. I’m thankful that this sensible take on where Flanagain is coming from and what she’s missing comes up on the web when a person googles Flanagan. Seems that mainstream newspapers are always looking for feminists who have turned, and present a voice of reason that echoes a conservative agenda. It’s very difficult to critique feminist politics and theory without soundling like that anyway, but some journalists seem to be, well, opportunistic in that way. Anyway, glad to see the critique here and hoping Lakshmi might take on the “sex and girls”—oh how exciting—op ed in the times. Sharon Lamb
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