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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promotingā¦
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1 author picked The Home Maker as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Canfield may have been the first to write a novel in which wife and husband swap roles as parental caregiver and breadwinnerāin 1924, no less, well before modern feminism.
As a former full-time father, I admire the premise and how she draws it out, not least because she depicts with perfect pitch the social pressures her characters face.
The storytelling may seem dated in spots, but her charactersā lives ring true, and the way they come to recognize that their individual talents run contrary to societal rulesāand what they do about thatāreminds me of my own experience.
From Larry's list on men and women breaking unwritten rules.
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