Overwhelmed : work, love, and play when no one has the time /
"This book asks whether working mothers in America -- or anywhere -- can ever find true leisure time. Or are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time," in which we are in frantic life management mode unti...
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Time confetti. The test of time ; Leisure is for nuns ; Too busy to live ; The incredible shrinking brain
- Work. The ideal worker is not your mother ; A tale of two Pats ; Bright spot : starting small ; When work works ; Bright spot : if the Pentagon can do it, why can't you?
- Love. The stalled gender revolution ; The cult of intensive motherhood ; Bright spot : Mother Nature ; New dads ; Bright spot : gritty, happy kids
- Play. Hygge in Denmark ; Let us play ; Bright spot : really plan a vacation
- Toward time serenity. Finding time ; Bright spot : time horizons ; Toward time serenity
- Appendix. Do one thing.