quote of the day #1 Nigella Lawson
By alice | September 28, 2009
I actually always thought there was something essentially anti-feminist in the disparagement of cooking and baking, which is to say, if something has been traditionally female, it therefore must be discredited, and only activities which are traditionally male are to be valued.
From this interview on BBC Radio 4’s “Food for Thought”. It’s an interesting interview, especially if you like what Nigella does.
I suppose these days what with internet knitting power and the big homemaking revival, there’s hopefully not as much fighting about what’s right and good for women as there was: in the sense that, not only do we know there’s room for more than one Right Way, but also we can see that it is pragmatically going to happen and is happening anyway, and previously-isolated individuals can join up, meet each other and feel affirmed whether they’re in a minority or not.
However, I still think what Nigella says is worth saying, and it still means something to me, personally. Having said that, so does Vera Brittain’s early-feminist Testament of Youth, which is worth reading for insight on where all of those fights and either/ors first came from. I’ll go find a juicy bit from that right now.
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