Reviewing Hirshman’s Get To Work

So finally, I found the time, the energy, and above all – the WILL – to take on a monumental task I committed myself to a couple months ago. Mind you, this is despite several other monumental tasks that remain smouldering on the backburner of my brain. Hopefully, they will not be charred ashen before I can summon the WILL to complete them to.

I’m guessing, dear reader (always wanted to write that a-la-mode Jane Eyre, the dour-faced romantic heroine of my adolescence), that you would not really care to know what the taskes uber-unestimable are on my calendar, and for the sake of my own sanity, I will not care to repeat them here either.

Linda Hirshman

On we march to the mountains of Atlas, or in this case, the great feminist article Ranjani sent me to review. There, I said it. Feminist. Can’t help myself. I love being one. I love the word. Such a powerful word, I like the busty sound of it. No namby-pansie this. Feminist – a word so full of energy, rebellion, ambition, determination (WILL – mankind’s collective WILL to change the stinking status quo).

I will keep referring to some lines, words.. but it is just so much better if you have an overarching idea of the ideas I will be talking about. Of course, it is best to read the whole article, which is available at here

‘Everybody hates Linda’, says someone on mothersmovent.com (I shudder at the thought of the rest of the articles on that blog), and ‘Hirshman has it backwards‘, says an NYTimer Op-ed columnist. Pfft, seriously? One of the most progressive ideologies of all-time, decried and discarded in entirety. Me, I feel there is much to be taken and adapted from Hirshman, and much to be mulled over, but nought to be discarded. In my posts that follow, I will examine some of the ideas she has played with in her book. Tonight, it’s time to call it a day.

(relinquished of responsibility for the next 9 hours.. )