ISBN:
9781408849453
Language:
English
Edition:
Paperback edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schulte, Brigid Overwhelmed
DDC:
331.4/4
Keywords:
Leisure-Social aspects
;
Working mothers-Time management
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses - individual, historical, biological and societal - that have ripped working mothers' leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the 2015 Edition -- Part One: Time Confetti -- 1. The Test of Time -- 2. Leisure is for Nuns -- 3. Too Busy to Live -- 4. The Incredible Shrinking Brain -- Part Two: Work -- 5. The Ideal Worker is not Your Mother -- 6. A Tale of Two Pats -- Bright Spot: Starting Small -- 7. When Work Works -- Bright Spot: If the Pentagon can do it, Why Can'T You? -- Part Three: Love -- 8. The Stalled Gender Revolution -- 9. The Cult of Intensive Motherhood -- Bright Spot: Mother Nature -- 10. Dads Want to have it All, Too -- Bright Spot: Gritty, Happy Kids -- Part Four: Play -- 11. Hygge in Denmark -- 12. Let us Play -- Bright Spot: Really Plan a Vacation -- Part Five: Toward Time Serenity -- 13. Finding Time -- Bright Spot: Time Horizons -- 14. Toward Time Serenity -- Appendix: Do One Thing -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Author -- eCopyright
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