Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing Diana Lind Bold Type Books, 2020; 272 pages, $16.99 Perhaps the most famous quote about the concept of home hails from Robert Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man”: “Home,” says one character to another, “is the place where, when you have to go […]
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Redefining Rich: Achieving True Wealth with Small Business, Side Hustles, and Smart Living Shannon Hayes Ben Bella, 2021; 224 pages, $14.95 If you’d kindly turn to the index of first lines in the poetry anthology nearest you, you’ll find the O section led by two odes to the world: “O world, I cannot hold […]
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“Sexual Orientation Change Efforts,” or “SOCE,” describe a number of therapeutic practices designed to help a same-sex attracted individual change his or her attraction to a heterosexual attraction. Sometimes referred to as “conversion therapy,” SOCE has garnered fierce debate, and is actually prohibited in a number of states. In its place, therapists are often urged […]
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When the COVID-19 pandemic made landfall on Western shores in early spring of 2020, under a public health strategy of “flattening the curve” and virus containment, governments everywhere imposed lockdowns.[1] Concomitant with the stay-at-home orders were school and business closures, cancellation of “superspreader” events,[2] and significant restrictions on travel. Consequently, people experienced a major upheaval […]
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“Here I am! I am Alex,” opens the popular children’s board book, Two Homes. “This is Daddy. And this is Mommy. Daddy lives here. Sometimes I’m with Daddy. Mommy lives there. Sometimes I’m with Mommy. So . . . I have two homes!” So begins a very young fictional child’s explanation of the […]
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Second-wave feminism, which expanded rapidly in the late 1960’s, declared open war against the family home and its traditional values. In the traditional home, the husband-father was the primary breadwinner and protector of the household, while the housewife-mother was the primary homemaker and caregiver of their children. Together, in a marriage, they were considered the […]
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In Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, the concept of home ownership looms large. As the residents of Bedford Falls come to George Bailey’s rescue, one of the donors says that without George, he would not have a roof over his head. Indeed, George has devoted his life to building homes and increasing access to […]
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During the 1990’s, dozens of academic conferences and hefty volumes of analysis appeared on the problem of “the home,” a focus that continues to our day. Driving this analysis has been the wave of feminist scholars, for whom the home has served as “the crucible of gender domination.” Expected phrases such as “patriarchal capitalism” and […]
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