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001 2013040637
003 DLC
005 20150613082625.0
008 131107s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013040637
020 $a9780374228446 (hardback)
020 $z9781429945875 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHQ759.48$b.S33 2014
082 00 $a331.4/4$223
084 $aSOC026010$aBUS097000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSchulte, Brigid,$d1962-
245 10 $aOverwhelmed :$bwork, love, and play when no one has the time /$cBrigid Schulte.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2014.
300 $a353 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Can working parents in America--or anywhere--ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time"? Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for The Washington Post Magazine: "How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure--over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research--anything we could do?" Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. Overwhelmed is the story of what she found out"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This book asks whether working mothers in America -- or anywhere -- can ever find true leisure time. Or are our brains, our partners, our culture, our bosses, making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contained time," in which we are in frantic life management mode until we are sound asleep?"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aWorking mothers.
650 0 $aLeisure$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aWorking mothers$xTime management.
650 0 $aWork and family.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/446/9780374228446/image/lgcover.9780374228446.jpg