Overwhelmed
Subtitle: how to work, love, and play when no one has the time
By: Brigid Schulte
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: Picador/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781250062383
Subjects: Sociology; Social aspects; Marriage & Family; Working mothers; Leisure; Time management; Women in Business; Quality or Trade Paperback; General; Women's Studies; Work and family
Description: "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"--
Notes: Previous edition: 2014.

"A Sarah Crichton book."

Includes a new preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Time confetti.; title: The test of time ;; title: Leisure is for nuns ;; title: Too busy to live ;; title: The incredible shrinking brain -- -- Work.; title: The ideal worker is not your mother ;; title: A tale of two Pats ;; title: Bright spot: starting small ;; title: When work works ;; title: Bright spot: if the Pentagon can do it, why can't you? -- -- Love.; title: The stalled gender revolution ;; title: The cult of intensive motherhood ;; title: Bright spot: Mother Nature ;; title: Dads want to have it all, too ;; title: Bright spot: gritty, happy kids -- -- Play.; title: Hygge in Denmark ;; title: Let us play ;; title: Bright spot: really plan a vacation -- -- Toward time serenity.; title: Finding time ;; title: Bright spot: time horizons ;; title: Toward time serenity -- -- Appendix:; title: Do one thing.