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Solidarity in the housework place
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a polemic against “cleanfluencers” and considers radical alternatives to current inequalities of housework
INSPIRING EXAMPLE: Celebrating the women's strike in Reykjavik, 2006
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The Return of the Housewife: Why Women are Still Cleaning Up
Emma Casey, Manchester University Press, £19.98
EMMA CASEY’s book, The Return of the Housewife, exposes yet another example of how social media is being used to misinform and manipulate.
A reader in sociology at the University of York, Casey strips bare TikTok, Instagram, other digital sources flooded with images of “cleanfluencers” — women cleaning, tidying, putting things right, and linked to the concept of a life of love, contentment, self-care and positive thinking.
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