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OverwhelmedBrigid Schulte

Overwhelmed

2014368 pages
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"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…

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9 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2015
    Harper Perennial · 368 pages · 9781443410199
  • Hardcover · English · 2014
    HarperCollins Publishers · 368 pages · 9781443410182
  • Other · English · 2015
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408849453
  • Other · English · 2015
    Brilliance Audio · 9781501209987
  • Other · English · 2015
    Picador/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 354 pages · 9781250062383
  • Other · English · 2014
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 370 pages · 9781408826690
SociologyElternLebensqualitätMarriage & FamilyTime managementWorking mothersMethodsSOCIAL SCIENCE