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Housework is Real Work: Selma James on the Decades-Long Fight for Wages for Housework

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 16, 2012.

Selma James coined the term "unwaged" work to describe the real work of housewives--and she has some thoughts that Mitt and Ann Romney might learn from.

Radical Homemaking: Why Both Men and Women Should Get Back In Kitchen

Shannon Hayes, YES! Magazine. February 7, 2010.

A glance into America’s past suggests that homemaking could play a big part in addressing the ecological, economic and social crises of our present time.

I'm a Feminist But I Do All the Housework: What's Up With That?

Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. September 25, 2009.

By and large, women do far more housework than men and are better at it. It's creating a dirty situation.

The Trials of the 21st Century Wife

Alessandra Whitney, Sirens Magazine. March 12, 2009.

Becoming a wife can still mean losing our independence — and it's not our husbands who are making us feel this way. So then who is?

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