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I just finished reading Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes, and I thought it was mostly good. She lays out how American households transformed from centers of production to centers of consumption, gives the currently ascendant corporatism a sound thrashing, and presents what she has learned from families making the transition back to a home-centered life (including her own family). I particularly found her ideas about interdependence, including leaning on family networks, to be interesting. She is a feminist author, so I couldn’t entirely relate to where she was coming from; I found it amusing how close she ends up to the far-right religious patriarchalists in her conclusions. I feel like this is yet another book that is almost a Christian book, except for her substitution of eco-feminism for Christ. She also didn’t really say much about the role of children in the productive home; having ecologically sustainable home-based lifestyles won’t do us much good if there’s no up-and-coming generation to pass it to.