Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety, Amanda D. Watson

Автор: Amanda D. Watson
Название: Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety
ISBN: 0774864621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774864626
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23370.00 T
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Описание: Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversial case that mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.

Автор: Harrington Meyer Madonna Harrington
Название: Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs
ISBN: 0814729479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814729472
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 28590.00 T
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Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America

Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation. Madonna Harrington Meyer’s Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on 48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers.


While all of the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer’s book are pleased to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules, using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts, and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply want to do this; others do it in part because they have more security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to the amount of financial help they are providing their grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America today.

Автор: Benjamin, Marina
Название: Little give
ISBN: 1914484568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914484568
Издательство: TBS/GBS
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Цена: 19790.00 T
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Автор: Nazaire, Raiysa Darlene
Название: Balance is a juggling act
ISBN: 1098380452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098380458
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 21430.00 T
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Описание: The world is intense right now, and we could all become somewhat imbalanced if were not careful. Clearly its time for expansive change. Life itself is a collection of experiences in expansion of our mind and physical being, which often moves us off center. Yet what if our only job is to return to balance? The global crisis is an opportunity for us to do just that - re-examine, realign, and reset our thoughts and beliefs to experience a more congruent world. Balance Is a Juggling Act provides the framework to guide you back to balanced living through explorative journaling focused around straightforward well-being concepts. Balance Is a Juggling Act offers you paradigm shifts that guides you to build and maintain strong mental well-being through simple, accessible and actionable steps that even the busiest readers can apply to their daily lives. Its easy-to-understand explanations and candid examples foster a self-sufficient reading experience. Balance Is a Juggling Act is divided into four phases, each contains ten grounding mental well-being concepts: Phase 1: Awareness - becoming more aware of what is going on in the background of your thought process and automatic behaviors, Phase 2: Self Observation - watching how your thoughts lead to emotions and play out in your life, Phase 3: Self Encounter - learning more about how the mind and brain interact and adjusting learned patterns for balance, and Phase 4: Conscious Living - incorporating the practice of conscious awareness in your daily life for overall well-being. gain and again, through introspection even during the most stressful situations. Each phase elevates the level of self observation and insight gained. Each phase ends with a Balancing Act - a meditative exercise that calms the mind and reduces stress, which embodies the theme of the phase. This combination of information and self observation morphed into knowledge and experience by journaling and daily practice results in a life-changing shift in thought, perspective and life experience that results in a more fulfilling, balanced and joyful life.

Автор: Harrington Meyer Madonna Harrington
Название: Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs
ISBN: 0814729231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814729236
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 74360.00 T
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Winner of the 2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America

Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Employment among middle-aged women is at an all-time high. In the same way that women who reduce employment hours when raising their young children experience reductions in salary, savings, and public and private pensions, the mothers of those same women, as grandmothers, are rearranging hours to take care of their grandchildren, experiencing additional loss of salary and reduced old age pension accumulation. Madonna Harrington Meyer’s Grandmothers at Work, based primarily on 48 in-depth interviews conducted in 2009-2012 with grandmothers who juggle working and minding their grandchildren, explores the strategies of, and impacts on, working grandmothers.


While all of the grandmothers in Harrington Meyer’s book are pleased to spend time with their grandchildren, many are readjusting work schedules, using vacation and sick leave time, gutting retirement accounts, and postponing retirement to care for grandchildren. Some simply want to do this; others do it in part because they have more security and flexibility on the job than their daughters do at their relatively new jobs. Many are sequential grandmothers, caring for one grandchild after the other as they are born, in very intensive forms of grandmothering. Some also report that they are putting off retirement out of economic necessity, in part due to the amount of financial help they are providing their grandchildren. Finally, some are also caring for their frail older parents or ailing spouses just as intensively. Most expect to continue feeling the pinch of paid and unpaid work for many years before their retirement. Grandmothers at Work provides a unique perspective on a phenomenon faced by millions of women in America today.