Mommy Wars: Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
de Steiner, Leslie Morgan (Editor)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge tear and edge wear.
- ISBN 10
- 1400064155
- ISBN 13
- 9781400064151
- Librería
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With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood.Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they're all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace--only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream "I hope you never come back!" when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and New York Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women's National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood--and have a blast in the process.Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
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- 60981
- Título
- Mommy Wars: Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
- Autor
- Steiner, Leslie Morgan (Editor)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge tear and edge wear.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 1400064155
- ISBN 13
- 9781400064151
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Sandy Hingston, Terri Minsky, Susan Cheever, Dawn Drzal, Donna Reed, Lonnae Parker, Catherine Clifford, Beth Brophy, Sydney Trent, Leslie Lahr, Molly Jong-Fast, Veronica Chambers, Anna Fels, Jane Juska, Iris Krasnow, Jame Smiley, Carolyn Hax, Natalie
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