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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How One Family Pulled the Plug and Lived to Tell/Text/Tweet the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How One Family Pulled the Plug and Lived to Tell/Text/Tweet the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

If Thoreau could last two years in the woods without the mod-cons of the early nineteenth century (running water), then surely Susan Maushart can survive six months without the technology of the twenty-first century? But then, Thoreau didn't have teenagers ... or an iPhone ... or Facebook ... For any parent who has ever yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections and bring you to ask yourself pertinent questions about your own usage. Such as: Should a fifty-year old woman have a pet name for her laptop? Or take her iPod to bed with her?* A thoroughly honest and hilarious read. *As asked by Susan Maushart

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1847657400

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Wifework

What marriage really means for women

By: Susan Maushart

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Wifework

What marriage really means for women

By: Susan Maushart

Wifework is a fiercely argued, in-depth look at the inequitable division of labor between husbands and wives. Bolstering her own personal experience as a twice-married mother of three with substantial research and broad statistical evidence, Susan Maushart explores the theoretical and evolutionary reasons behind marriage inequality. She forces us to consider why 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce, and why women are responsible for initiating three-quarters of them. If family life is worth saving, and Maushart passionately believes it is, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Susan Maushart was born in New York and has lived in Australia since 1985. Her first book, Sort of a Place Like Home, won a Festival Award for Literature at the Adelaide Festival in 1994, and her second, The Mask of Motherhood, was published to international acclaim. She is a senior research associate at Curtin University, a columnist for the Australian Magazine and lives in Perth with her three children. 'An often funny dissection of modern marriage...100 percent honest. [A] smart and witty book.' -Publishers Weekly 'With good-humored aplomb, Maushart makes clear she doesn't think marriage or men are "rotten", but that "the way we typically divide up the business-and the pleasure, too-of our adult relationships is inefficient, maladaptive, and unfair.'-Bookpage 'Maushart assembles an overwhelming amount of data documenting how marriage has perpetuated inequities between husband and wife.'-Christian Science Monitor Daily 'Susan Maushart's heartfelt and incendiary Wifework is a brief against traditional marriage that took me back to the galvanizing effect of reading Friedan.' -Salon.com 'A wake-up call for women feeling trapped by marriage.'-Booklist

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1596919523

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Wifework

What marriage really means for women

By: Susan Maushart

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What marriage really means for women

By: Susan Maushart

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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son's seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn't blink an eye. Says Maushart: "Looking back, I can understand why. They didn't hear me." For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. The Winter of Our Disconnect challenges readers to examine the toll that technology is taking on their own family connections, and to create a media ecology that instead encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a self-confessed single mom who "slept with her iPhone," Maushart knew her family's exile from Cyburbia wasn't going to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon discovered that the rewards of becoming "unplugged" were more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.

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Penguin

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1101486120

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The Mask of Motherhood

How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It

By: Susan Maushart

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The Mask of Motherhood

How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It

By: Susan Maushart

Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they'll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping women to prepare and deal with the depth of feeling that comes with the experience and perhaps most important, it lets them know that many, if not most, new mothers are feeling the same way.Susan Maushart, sociologist and mother of three, explores how motherhood affects our marriages and friendships, our relationships with parents, our sex lives, and our self-esteem. In The Mask of Motherhood, mothers will find the comfort and reassurance they are looking for, and confirmation that, indeed, motherhood is the toughest job in the world, but can also be the most rewarding.

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0140291784

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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How One Family Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell/text/ Tweet the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

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How One Family Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell/text/ Tweet the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

For any parent who has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections, to create a media ecology that encourages kids - and parents - to thrive. At the simplest level, The Winter of Our Disconnect is the story of how one family survived six months of wandering through the desert - digitally speaking - and the lessons learned about themselves and technology along the way. At the same time, their story is a channel to a wider view - into the impact of new media on the lives of families, into the very heart of the meaning of home.

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1846684641

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The Mask of Motherhood

How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It

By: Susan Maushart

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How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It

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I'm Okay, You're a Brat!

Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood

By: Susan Jeffers

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I'm Okay, You're a Brat!

Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood

By: Susan Jeffers

Details just how difficult parenting can be, questioning the myths and half-truths that make some parents feel inadequate and offering valuable survival tools.

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St. Martin's Press

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1580632025

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The Mommy Myth

The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women

By: Susan Douglas,Meredith Michaels

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The Mommy Myth

The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women

By: Susan Douglas,Meredith Michaels

Now in paperback, the provocative book that has ignited fiery debate and created a dialogue among women about the state of motherhood today. In THE MOMMY MYTH, Susan Douglas and Meredith Michaels turn their 'sharp, funny, and fed-up prose' (San Diego Union Tribune) toward the cult of the new momism, a trend in Western culture that suggests that women can only achieve contentment through the perfection of mothering. Even so, the standards of this ideal remain out of reach, no matter how hard women try to 'have it all'. THE MOMMY MYTH skilfully maps the distance travelled from the days when THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE demanded more for women than keeping house and raising children, to today's not-so-subtle pressure to reverse this trend. A must-read for every woman.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743260465

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9780743260466

The Winter of Our Disconnect

How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother who Slept with Her IPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

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The Winter of Our Disconnect

How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother who Slept with Her IPhone) Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

By: Susan Maushart

The author of The Mask of Motherhood shares the whimsical story of how her family avoided communications technology for six months, a haphazard journey that taught them how to connect with each other in traditional and more meaningful ways. Original.

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The Mask of Motherhood

How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and why We Pretend it Doesn't

By: Susan Maushart

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How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and why We Pretend it Doesn't

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Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they'll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping women to prepare and deal with the depth of feeling that comes with the experience and perhaps most important, it lets them know that many, if not most, new mothers are feeling the same way. Susan Maushart, sociologist and mother of three, explores how motherhood affects our marriages and friendships, our relationships with parents, our sex lives, and our self-esteem. In The Mask of Motherhood, mothers will find the comfort and reassurance they are looking for, and confirmation that, indeed, motherhood is the toughest job in the world, but can also be the most rewarding.

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0863584063

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The Mask of Motherhood

How Mothering Changes Everything and why We Pretend it Doesn't

By: Susan Maushart

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How Mothering Changes Everything and why We Pretend it Doesn't

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Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they'll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping women to prepare and deal with the depth of feeling that comes with the experience and perhaps most important, it lets them know that many, if not most, new mothers are feeling the same way. Susan Maushart, sociologist and mother of three, explores how motherhood affects our marriages and friendships, our relationships with parents, our sex lives, and our self-esteem. In The Mask of Motherhood, mothers will find the comfort and reassurance they are looking for, and confirmation that, indeed, motherhood is the toughest job in the world, but can also be the most rewarding.

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Vintage

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0091836220

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