7/7/2023 0 Comments Home by Witold RybczynskiThere is one societal development that might eventually have an effect on the home: the massive entry of women into the work force. It's true that generally speaking, we tolerate increasingly casual behavior-inside the home and out-but while this does change the way that new houses are planned, it has not fundamentally altered our notion of home, either. Neither have home entertainment systems, or home offices. Yet I don't think that it drastically altered our idea of home. Seventy years ago, when people stopped dressing for dinner-I mean in dinner jackets-it must have seemed to many an unthinkable lapse in domestic manners. This is worth emphasizing, since the media is forever telling us that fads and fashions are "changing our world." Maybe-or maybe not. Cultural ideas evolve at a glacial pace so twenty years is not a long time for something as deeply rooted as our notion of home. "I think it's too early to tell," answered the Chairman. Henry Kissinger once asked Mao Tse-Tung if he thought the French Revolution was a success. How have our notions of home shifted over the last twenty years since you wrote your book, Home: A Short History of an Idea (1987)?
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