Women's work : a reckoning with home and help
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2019].
Status
Central - Adult Nonfiction
362.712 STACK
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362.712 STACK
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Published
New York : Doubleday, [2019].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Street Date
1904
Language
English
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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?
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Stack, M. K. (2019). Women's work: a reckoning with home and help (First edition.). Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stack, Megan K.. 2019. Women's Work: A Reckoning With Home and Help. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Stack, Megan K.. Women's Work: A Reckoning With Home and Help Doubleday, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Stack, Megan K.. Women's Work: A Reckoning With Home and Help First edition., Doubleday, 2019.
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