Amy Westervelt
Autor(a) de Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It
Obras por Amy Westervelt
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 39
- Popularidade
- #376,657
- Avaliação
- 3.0
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
- It's not personal navelgazing (the intro is just used as a jump)
- It's not just about middle class white women, and experiences outside that aren't treated as an afterthought--they're integral, and the interplay between white, middle class motherhood that's often used as the basis for public policy and motherhood as experienced by others is explored
- It doesn't fetishize other countries or their policies. They're used as ideas, but Westervelt readily acknowledges that if you graft on other countries' policies onto American culture, they may fail in ways they don't expect.
The not-so-good:
- She covers a TON of ground about motherhood, history, and policy, and quotes from a lot of sources. A lot of information is packed into a not very long book, and she shoots facts out at you a bit.
- Because so much ground is covered, it can feel a little scattered. There isn't enough room to stop, reflect, ruminate, breathe. It's informative and I learned a lot of details, but a little more of the author's own voice and ideas would have been nice.… (mais)