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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese labor. The housekeeper Stack hired was a migrant from the countryside, a mother who had left her daughter in a precarious situation to earn desperately needed cash in the capital. As Stack's family grew and her husband's job took them to Dehli, a series of Chinese and Indian women cooked, cleaned, and babysat in her home. Stack grew increasingly aware of the brutal realities of their lives: domestic abuse, alcoholism, unplanned pregnancies. Hiring poor women had given her the ability to work while raising her children, but what ethical compromise had she made? Determined to confront the truth, Stack traveled to her employees' homes, met their parents and children, and turned a journalistic eye on the tradeoffs they'd been forced to make as working mothers seeking upward mobility -- and on the cost to the children who were left behind. Women's Work is an unforgettable story of four women as well as an electrifying meditation on the evasions of marriage, motherhood, feminism, and privilege.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385542097
ISBN-13
9780385542098
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038680670
Product Key Features
Book Title
Women's Work : a Reckoning with Work and Home
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care, Women, Personal Memoirs, General, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"A stunning and layered examination of gender, money, and power . . . Unflinching." --Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe "Memoirs about motherhood are exceedingly common, but Women's Work dares to explore the labor arrangements that often make such books possible . . . Stack writes sharp, pointed sentences that flash with dark insight . . . [A] fearless book." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "Probing and fascinating. Stack doesn't shy away from describing her own feelings . . . Stack's writing is sharp and lovely." --Erica Pearson, Minneapolis Star Tribune "Megan Stack is willing to confront hard questions that many of us flinch from: about the relationships between women and the women we hire to take care of our houses and our children, to do the traditional women's work that gives 'liberated women' the time to do traditional men's work. Women's Work is a book of vivid characters, engrossing stories, shrewd insights, and uncomfortable reflections." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business and president and CEO of New America " Women's Work hit me where I live, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Stack uses her reporting acumen to illuminate domestic workers' struggles, but also fearlessly reveals the most vulnerable details of her own life in order to make her point. The masterfulness with which she tells these intertwined stories makes this book not just a work of brilliant journalism but a work of art." --Emily Gould, author of And the Heart Says Whatever and Friendship "If Karl Ove Knausgaard himself were a woman and had given birth, he might have written a book a little like Women's Work . Megan Stack's mastery of language and attention to detail make magic of the most quotidian aspects of life." --Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea "A fierce and furious and darkly funny book about the costs of motherhood: the psychological costs, the costs in time and energy and spirit, and finally the costs imposed on other women, most of them also mothers, who leave their own children so they can take care of ours. I can't think of a work that speaks more directly to our age of increasing inequality, starting with housework and child care, the oldest inequalities of all." --Keith Gessen, author of A Terrible Country "Megan Stack obliterates the silence that upholds one of our greatest taboos: our universal reliance on domestic labor that women--women of color especially--are expected to supply freely or cheaply. With journalistic rigor, Stack centers the complicated lives of women who clean our homes and care for our children, but it's her willingness to shine a light into the dark, typically untouched corners of her own family, privilege, and ambition that makes this book soar." --Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, "Megan Stack is willing to confront hard questions that so many of us flinch from: the relationships between women and the women we hire to take care of our houses and our children, to do the traditional women's work that gives 'liberated women' the time to do traditional men's work. Women's Work is a book of vivid characters, engrossing stories, shrewd insights, and uncomfortable reflections." --Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business and President and CEO, New America "If Karl Ove Knausgaard himself were a woman and had given birth, he might have written a book a little like Women's Work . Megan Stack's mastery of language and attention to detail make magic of the most quotidian aspects of life. But the subject matter here is hardly banal. Stack goes beyond her own experience of motherhood to focus on the Chinese and Indian nannies who helped her raise her children at the expense of their own. She brilliantly dissects the contradictions of motherhood by analyzing how motherly love becomes a commodity in this modern, globalized word." --Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea " Women's Work is an incredible follow-up to Megan Stack's celebrated book of war reportage, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar . It is a fierce and furious and darkly funny book about the costs of motherhood: the psychological costs, the costs in time and energy and spirit, and finally the costs imposed on other women, most of them also mothers, who leave their own children so they can take care of ours. I can't think of a work that speaks more directly to our age of increasing inequality, starting with housework and child care, the oldest inequalities of all." --Keith Gessen, author of A Terrible Country " Women's Work hit me where I live, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The discomfiting truths Stack reveals about caretaking and labor transcend cultural and national boundaries; this book is relevant to everyone, no matter how or where they live. Stack uses her reporting acumen to illuminate domestic workers' struggles, but also fearlessly reveals the most vulnerable details of her own life in order to make her point. The masterfulness with which she tells these intertwined stories makes this book not just a work of brilliant journalism but a work of art." --Emily Gould, author of And the Heart Says Whatever and Friendship "Megan Stack obliterates the silence that upholds one of our greatest taboos: our universal reliance on domestic labor that women--women of color especially--are expected to supply freely or cheaply. With journalistic rigor, Stack centers the complicated lives of women who clean our homes and care for our children, but it's her willingness to shine a light into the dark, typically untouched corners of her own family, privilege, and ambition that makes this book soar." --Angela Garbes, author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2018-035800
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
362.71/20954
Lc Classification Number
Hq778.7.I4s73 2019
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