“...feminists were almost always antisuburban, tending to equate the suburban home not with more freedom, but with a patriarchal desire to confine women and children to an isolated environment. The suburban ideal of domestic togetherness was viewed as a male device for keeping women in their domestic place...Only by entering the paid work force and establishing careers could women be liberated from the bondage of domestic servitude.” (161-62) Women feel confined by patriarchal organization, and find freedom (ironically?) in submission to equally repressive Capitalistic organization.
(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)
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