Choice feminism

I am Chisa Mudeze and this is Overnight Sweet Stuff.

So let's talk a In 2006, the philosopher and lawyer Linda Hirschman coined the term choice feminism.

She did not coin it as a compliment.

She coined it more or less as an indictment aimed specifically at educated and affluent women who left careers to stay home and they called that decision feminists simply because they had chosen it.

It was something along the lines of calling a decision feminists simply because a woman chose it tells you nothing about whether that choice was free or not costly.

And it makes the conditions that produces the choice unquestionable because the moment you ask what shaped the decision, you are being accused of attacking the woman who made it.

20 years later, the trad wife movement and phenomena is choice feminism's most polished production.

Homesteads, soda bread, a husband's income, and a camera.