Carolyn Graglia Published online: 21 January 2009 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008 After practicing law for five years, I gave birth to our first child and devoted myself to childrearing and homemaking.

Taped on our refrigerator for family enlightenment was Henry George’sĪcad. This life was possible because I married an honorable and dependable man who provided me with everything I wanted. I do not need an office to give structure and meaning to my life, I never had to cope with job-related stress, and I am never bored. My marriage of fifty-four years to a law school classmate is my career. Far from wasting my education, I used it to resist the cultural forces steering me back into the workforce and to create an interesting and satisfying life. I feel privileged to call myself a housewife because my husband, family, and home have given me the greatest satisfactions in my life, which I declined to diminish by returning to the workplace. When our three daughters were grown, I occasionally did legal consulting and then began to write and speak on feminism and the family, regarding this as community service.

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