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Author Schulte, Brigid, 1962-

Title Overwhelmed : work, love, and play when no one has the time / Brigid Schulte.

Publication Info. New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  331.44 SCHULTE    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  331.44 SCHULTE    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  331.44 SCHULTE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  331.44 SCHULTE    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  331.4 SCH    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  331.44 SCH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  331.44 S    Check Shelf
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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  331.44 SCH    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 353 pages ; 24 cm
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 ; When work works -- Love. The stalled gender revolution ; The cult of intensive motherhood ; New dads -- Play. Hygge in Denmark ; Let us play -- Toward time serenity. Finding time ; Toward time serenity -- Appendix: do one thing.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-332) and index.
Local Note AVONNFIC, PORTNONFIC, ENFDNFIC
Subject Working mothers.
Leisure -- Social aspects.
Working mothers -- Time management.
Work and family.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
Leisure $x Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00996044
Work and family. (OCoLC)fst01180235
Working mothers. (OCoLC)fst01180647
Working mothers -- Time management. (OCoLC)fst01180665
ISBN 9780374228446 (hardback)
0374228442 (hardback)
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