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Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Sarah Crichton Books
March 2014
On Sale: March 11, 2014
370 pages
ISBN: 0374228442
EAN: 9780374228446
Kindle: B00EX0XYU6
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Non-Fiction | Self-Help
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.
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