To Hell with All That By Caitlin Flanagan

I read and extremely enjoyed this novel by Caitlin Flanagan. It will probably tick off the hardcore feminist but it’s a funny novel that looks at the issues many women have between working and raising a family. She takes us back to the 60′s when many were trying to step out of the kitchen and get a life of their own. The books is titled: To Hell with All That : Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife

From Caitlin Flanagan, one of The New Yorker’s most entertaining and acerbic wits—a controversial reassesment of the rituals and events that shape women’s lives: weddings, sex, housekeeping, and motherhood.

Caitlin Flanagan, the hilarious and hotly disputed social critic, compares the rituals and experiences that shaped the fifties housewife with those that have forged the modern woman, and arrives at some surprising conclusions. In her signature prose—bitingly funny and brutally honest—Flanagan examines everything from the contemporary white wedding craze to the epidemic of undersexed marriages. Whether she is reporting on the mommy wars, the anti-clutter movement, or America’s new nanny culture, her book reveals both the high cost women pay for devoting themselves to the people they love, and also the matchless rewards that come from such a sacrifice.