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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior
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Description for All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Paperback. Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 252.
Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half-century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.
Recruiting from a wide variety of sources - in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology - she dissects both the timeless ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1901
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349005539
SKU
V9780349005539
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Ref
99-50
About Jennifer Senior
Jennifer Senior is a contributing editor at New York magazine. She lives in New York with her family.
Reviews for All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom . . . [an] excellent book
New York Times Book Review
[An] astute book . . . clear and helpful . . . refreshing . . . an eye opening debut, and it will help a lot of parents feel less ... Read more
New York Times Book Review
[An] astute book . . . clear and helpful . . . refreshing . . . an eye opening debut, and it will help a lot of parents feel less ... Read more