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Reading this book I thought about how people say that not only have women not been recognised when they do something important and stopped from entering the spaces that were considered as important (as much as the people in power could stop them), it has also been men who get to decide what is considered important. Health and safety regarding childbirth or child rearing have for a long time not been seen as important, and one can ask the question if that had to do with this female spaces. It's much easier to recognise the political (both economic and social) in a lot of her other books because they talk about spaces seen as male spaces. This book talks about female spaces (a town where there aren't that many men as they are either dead or somewhere else working). I wanted to dismiss this book as a cute, but pointless. I think this is doing it a disservice. I think the way the women interact in this book is a faithful description of how women created spaces in a time and class where men weren't around much, because their jobs demaned them to be away. Though I think it takes time to understand the complexity of the book.