Feminism: Domestic goddesses

The passage of time from my college days, at which point feminism was a major political issue, to today, where we keep redefining the idea into post-feminism or third-wave feminism or whatever, has tended to keep one on one's intellectual toes. Unfortunately, though, things may not have changed much when all is said and done. Societies have given different roles to males and females pretty much since the dawn of creation. Birds do it, bees do it, even chimpanzees do it: gender differences, that is. Some are essentialist, some are cultural, but at the bottom, there is a scary realization that, in that passage of time from when feminism was up front and loud, to today, we still have things like the recent issue of the abuse of women in the videogame universe. Really? We haven't come even that far? It's depressing, really. You think that all the lessons have been learned, and it turns out that this might as well be the Eisenhower era, except now the goons are really good at WOW and resent it when "girls" are good at it too.

Jeesh.

Anyhow, a fun article: A Brief History of Domestic Goddesses. It outlines the differences of women in the home from Colonial times to today. The thing is, change may happen, but we still do have homes. How we live in them may seem like something unworthy of study, but when you come down to it, it may be one of the most study-worthy things about us.