When Mothers Work - Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Ourselves

Informationen zum Autor Joan K. Peters has written for the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Family Life, Cosmopolitan, The Nation, and numerous other publications, and is the author of When Mothers Work. She lives in California with her husband and daughter. Must mothers today be torn by the conflict between work and family? Drawing upon real-life stories, contemporary psychology, and social trends, author Joan K. Peters offers a complex and convincing portrait of the ways women and children prosper when old ideas of mothering are left behind. Also, she offers practical, hands-on strategies for mothers struggling to balance work, family, and self. Zusammenfassung Drawing on the latest research and discussions with prominent psychologists, Peters explains our deep-seated resistance to mothering (and fathering) in new ways. With portraits of a dozen real families,corporate and blue collar, religious and secular, step- and single parents, urban and suburban,Peters illustrates the strategies that make this new family life succeed.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Peters, Joan K. Peters, John K. Peters, Peters Joan
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1968
• EAN: 9780738200286
• ISBN: 978-0-7382-0028-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues