Think I need to put this to a large selection of women so:
It is DW birthday today and we went to a pub for lunch, with her parents and sister.
This year I got her the complete mrs beeton. (an old copy, not first edition but getting there, )
DW loves to cook, loves to read and loves old books and has some of those new short ones of mrs beeton- there is one on jam, one on baking those ones.
She loved it.
She opened her presents at the end of the meal. Her sister declares that it is a highly sexist present and what a chauvinistic gift to give your wife and that it screams of sexism.
DW promptly told her where to go, her parents said it is only a book.
SIL kept saying how it was sexist and how it shows how under the thumb (!) DW is if she can't see that it is sexist.
In the car back home DW told me not to listen and that it was in no way sexist.
But it has got me thinking.
Is my DW in the minority here?
Would you feel a Mrs Beeton guide to household management (or any cooking/household related book) is a sexist gift?