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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743 EAN: 9781580051293 ISBN: 1580051294 Label: Seal Press Manufacturer: Seal Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: March 10, 2005 Publisher: Seal Press Studio: Seal Press Sales Rank: 104698
Product Description: The media, from Dr. Phil to the New York Times Magazine, is adamant that there is no love lost between working parents and those who stay home with their children, each fighting an ideological and economic war based on what they think is best for their children. Yet in reality, as Miriam Peskowitz powerfully discloses, parents don't want to fight one another at all; they simply want more options. Moreover, the very sides in this debate don't exist: one third of all mothers work part-time, falling into the vast abyss between full-time careerist and at-home mommy. How does the corporate climate in America force women to claim either a career or a family at any given time? Are the choices women are making—to either adjust careers, "carousel" in and out of the workplace, or quit altogether—really choices at all? And how do we expand the definition of productive worker to include an engaged parent? These questions and more are answered and explored in this moving and convincing treatise on the new-century collision between work and mothering.
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Rating: - Somewhat interesting
This book is somewhat thought provoking, but quickly redundant. The theory that working moms and stay at home moms are at war felt artificial and the resources used to support that this war is going on ... Read More
Rating: - Slow start, but glad I kept reading
I almost abandoned this book at the start because I found it boring. It read more like a college paper. But, I kept reading and the book got a lot better.
This book is an unbiased look at mothers ... Read More
Rating: - Mommy Dearest.....
On a beautiful early evening at a beach I saw 2,3, and 4 years olds playing a baby world cup game. I was delighted to see such youngsters so engaged in a sport like mini-adults. However, children are not mini ... Read More
Rating: - An impressive book.
The author offers an enlightening and readable mix of solid academic research, personal experience, and feminist manifesto. She rejects the Mommy Wars as a media invention designed to sell insecure mothers more ... Read More
Rating: - Well-researched look at women's place in the workforce
In this book, Peskowitz examines the supposed war between working moms and sat-at-home moms and concludes that it's a war perpetuated by the media rather than an actual one. She then explores the nature of work in ... Read More
- Somewhat interesting
- Slow start, but glad I kept reading