Hyperindividualism Quotes

“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that we have more [media] articles about toxins in the home than the fact that we don’t have universal prenatal care, she says. “We’ve moved from collective concern about infant and child welfare into this very privatized focus on “my child” and this intensive child-rearing.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“Why is it we don’t intervene in the bureaucracy?” asks Chris Bobel, the gender studies scholar, who has noted that many young activists prefer “DIY activism” – making art, changing their own consumer habits, making their own products rather than buying corporate ones. They tell her, “We don’t want to be in bed with the enemy,” she says. “That’s not where change happens. That’s old-school activism. We’re all about DIY’”. Bobel sighs. “A lot of these activists weren’t even registered voters.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity