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Domestic Tranquility: A Brief against Feminism, by F. Carolyn Graglia (Spence, 480 pp., $29.95)

CAROLYN Graglia’s Domestic Tranquility is a powerful, noble, tragic book. It presents modern feminism for what it is: institutionalized hatred of motherhood and homemaking, at least as they have been understood over the last few millennia. The book has been attacked for extremism. There is nothing extreme about it. Mrs. Graglia’s accusations are meticulously documented and footnoted. The book is honest, passionate, furious, and not for the faint-hearted, because modern reality is not for the faint-hearted. But to be anything but furious, a woman in Carolyn Graglia’s position would have to be inhuman or insane.

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Domestic Tranquility: A Brief against Feminism, by F. Carolyn Graglia (Spence, 480 pp., $29.95)

CAROLYN Graglia’s Domestic Tranquility is a powerful, noble, tragic book. It presents modern feminism for what it is: institutionalized hatred of motherhood and homemaking, at least as they have been understood over the last few millennia. The book has been attacked for extremism. There is nothing extreme about it. Mrs. Graglia’s accusations are meticulously documented and footnoted. The book is honest, passionate, furious, and not for the faint-hearted, because modern reality is not for the faint-hearted. But to be anything but furious, a woman in Carolyn Graglia’s position would have to be inhuman or insane.