SWA #6 Meet the Radical Homemakers

If modern society would go back to the traditional ways of homemaking, then we could improve our ecological footprint and offer a better environment for our families and communities.  Hayes builds her argument by giving her audience a variety of information while keeping a rather open opinion on the subject at hand.  She creates an ethos by first stating that after calculations, homemaking would actually save her family money as opposed to both her and her husband working two jobs and combining their income.  If she worked too then they would need to pay for "convenience foods" and daycare for their children, whereas if she stayed at home she could produce, harvest, and store her own food and watch the kids and the house, too.  Hayes also tells us "the origins of homemaking" (292).  She makes appeals to pathos by explaining the "housewife's syndrome" (292).  She strategizes in another way by actually meeting and seeing the lives of real "radical homemakers" in U.S. She then attempts to convince her audience that homemaking would help us all out by benefitting the sustainability and future of our families and ourselves.