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Mommy Wars; Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

Mommy Wars; Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

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Mommy Wars; Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families

by Steiner, Leslie Morgan (Editor)

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New York: Random House, 2006. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxvi, 336, [1] pages. Inscribed by author on title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Related bookmark laid in. As an executive at "The Washington Post" and mother of three, Steiner has lived every side of the "mommy wars. " In this new book, she commissions 26 outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood. With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into camps and pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank and refreshing look at American motherhood. Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids, moms who shuttle from full-time jobs to part-time at-home work, executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common is that they're all terrific writers. The essays collected here offer an intimate portrait of the state of motherhood. Mommy Wars is a book by, for, and about the real experts: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.

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With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman's life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers against themselves. Leslie Morgan Steiner has been there. As an executive at The Washington Post, a writer, and mother of three, she has lived and breathed every side of the "mommy wars." Rather than just watch the battles rage, Steiner decided to do something about it. She commissioned twenty-six outspoken mothers to write about their lives, their families, and the choices that have worked for them. The result is a frank, surprising, and utterly refreshing look at American motherhood.Ranging in age from twenty-five to seventy-two and scattered across the country from New Hampshire to California, these mothers reflect the full spectrum of lifestyle choices. Women who have been home with the kids from day one, moms who shuttle from full-time office jobs to part-time at-home work, hard-driving executives who put in seventy-hour-plus weeks: they all get a turn. The one thing these women have in common, aside from having kids, is that they're all terrific writers. Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley vividly recounts how her generation stormed the American workplace--only to take refuge at home when the workplace drove them out. Lizzie McGuire creator Terri Minsky describes what it felt like to hear her kids scream "I hope you never come back!" when she flew to L.A. to launch the show that made her career. Susan Cheever, novelist, biographer, and New York Newsday columnist, reports on the furious battles between the stroller pushers and the briefcase bearers on the streets of Manhattan. Lois R. Shea traded the journalistic fast track for a house in the country where she could raise her daughter in peace. Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff, chief operating officer of the Women's National Basketball Association, argues fiercely that you can combine ambition and motherhood--and have a blast in the process.Candid, engaging, by turns unflinchingly honest and painfully funny, the essays collected here offer an astonishingly intimate portrait of the state of motherhood today. Mommy Wars is a book by and for and about the real experts on motherhood and hard work: the women at home, in the office, on the job every day of their lives.From the Hardcover edition.

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Title
Mommy Wars; Stay-At-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Author
Steiner, Leslie Morgan (Editor)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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Very good
Quantity Available
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Edition
Third printing [stated]
ISBN 10
1400064155
ISBN 13
9781400064151
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2006
Keywords
Sandy Hingston, Terri Minsky, Susan Cheever, Dawn Drzal, Donna Reed, Lonnae Parker, Catherine Clifford, Beth Brophy, Sydney Trent, Leslie Lahr, Molly Jong-Fast, Veronica Chambers, Anna Fels, Jane Juska, Iris Krasnow, Jane Smiley, Carolyn Hax, Natalie

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