Domestic Tranquility by F. Carolyn Graglia

The forth chapter deals with feminists and them encouraging women into male promiscuously, and explains to us that our fore mothers probably had a better time in the bedroom than feminists lead women to believe. In the next chapter the author explains on how feminism de-feminized women to become more like men or lesbians. The second Chapter discussed the response the revitalized woman's movement chose- a further devaluation of the housewife's role to drive women into the market place. She tells us how the 'traditional family started' and how different cultures contributed to women no longer valuing the home or the homemaker status.

The first chapter is how woman became discontented and because of that discontent the feminist movement was bound to happen. The book has seven chapters, an index, an acknowledgment, bibliography and an introduction which is very very long. This book was amazing and it was pretty easy to read. Finally, after exposing feminism's totalitarian impulse and its contribution to the 'tangle of pathologies' that have left marriage and family life in tatters, she argues for a renewed appreciation of the transforming experience of motherhood and the value of the domestic vocation. Turning to the feminist understanding of sexuality, now pervasive in our culture, she shows how it has distorted and impoverished sex by stripping it of its true significance. In a masterly analysis of seminal feminist texts, she reveals a conscious campaign of ostracism of the housewife as a childish 'parasite'. Graglia traces the origins of modern feminism to the post-war exaltation of marketplace achievement, which bred dissatisfaction with women's domestic roles. With a profound understanding of the quandary of modern women, Carolyn Graglia shows that the cultural assault on marriage, motherhood, and traditional sexuality, rooted in the pursuit of economic and political power, has robbed women of their surest source of fulfillment. The principal targets of feminist fire in the on-going 'gender wars' are not men but traditional wives and mothers, says a lawyer-turned-housewife in a powerful critique of contemporary feminism.

Domestic Tranquility by F. Carolyn Graglia