· 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. Praise For Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home . “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.”/5(62). · “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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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. Megan K. Stack has reported on war, terrorism, and political Islam from twenty-two countries since She was most recently Moscow bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. She was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award for best newspaper reporting from abroad and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international. Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home Lists by. Megan K. Stack. Feminist interest 81st out of books — 95 voters Contemporary Releases. nd out of books — voters Red Shoes. 94th out of books — 8 voters NYT Editors' Choice
“Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home” by Megan K Stack Deatil from the cover of the UK edition A war correspondent and overseas bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Megan K Stack never had much occasion to concern herself with gender equality even when she married another foreign correspondent and the two moved to Beijing a decade ago. Women’s Work: A Reckoning With Work and Home by Megan K Stack review – a domestic minefield A war reporter faces a battle closer to home when childcare poses questions about a woman’s work. In her new book, Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home, Stack explores how she availed herself of cheap domestic labor, first in China, then India, wrestles with her own complicity in an often exploitative system, and considers the trade-offs women of all backgrounds are required to make to survive in the global economy.
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