Can feminists hang their clothes?

Here is one woman's view:

I imagine the cooking of food is a lot like laundry. It is not normally considered a proper subject for conversation, particularly among intellectuals, but if you start asking around, you will find that people take it more personally than you might imagine. Laundry, liturgy, and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries (Paulist Press, 1999).

If there is laundry to be hung somebody has to do it. Project Laundry List is not "undoing the work of Betty Freidan" as one skeptic asked. We are about creating the space for choices. A lot of people find laundry hanging therapeutic and relaxing--a time away from the hustle and bustle of daily life.

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Mido watches for her

I imagine the cooking of food is a lot like laundry.

Mido watches for her , May 24, 2011 | url

WHY feminism?!

WHY would a site dedicated to hanging laundry undo the work of Betty Freidan?! WHAT an assumption to make--the ones hanging the laundry are women? I am a feminist. I have a full-time job. And, I am trying to save my pennies so we can heat our house this winter. So, I'm trying to use our dryer as little as possible and provide for my family. I'd say that's pretty freakin' feminist.

Bee , November 24, 2010

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