Can You Be a Domestic Feminist?

Why Laurie Colwin advocated for “feminist homebodies”

Denisa Vitova
Fourth Wave
Published in
5 min readSep 28, 2022

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Domesticity, the simple married life. Characters cooking for each other, sitting at a full table, chatting about nothing and everything at once. This is boredom, but the cosy, comforting kind, the mundane life at its best, built around the cult of the household god. Or, better said, around the cult of the angel in the…

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Denisa Vitova
Fourth Wave

BA in Literature and Linguistics, MA in Creative Writing. Published by The London Magazine, Ambit, Firewords, The Moth and others. Now works in media.