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We hear it all the time: Norwegian women have taken up needlework again, they are baking cookies and cultivating the role of ”housewife”. Seven out of ten young women think ”it would be nice to be kept by a man”, and the number who choose to take their husband’s surname is on the rise. Talk about waving a red cloth in front of Marta Breen!

Are we the first generation ever that is more conservative than its parents? she asks. Back in the seventies, her mother fought for more kindergartens, economic independence and abortion rights. Young women of today have turned that struggle into a Little Miss Goodie Two-Shoes contest.

Equipped with ample doses of humour and a generous inclination to share her own personal experiences with us, Marta Breen addresses phenomena such as couples’ holidays, pornography and pink tulle dresses. Modern parents who over-indulge their children; women who yearn for the fifties; men who are full of themselves: None of those are left off the hook either.