GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
The Home Stretch by Sally Howard
Acute analysis of why domestic labour still falls disproportionately to women
HOUSEWORK, and who does it, was a key concern of the second-wave feminism of the 1970s, the time of the international Wages For Housework movement and Ann Oakley’s influential study Housewife.
Since then, as journalist Sally Howard argues in her brilliant new book, the issue has dropped off the agenda of mainstream feminism.
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