The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 in 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781580051293
Publisher: Basic Books
Imprint: Seal Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.8743
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 243
Weight: 322g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 16mm