Editor’s Note: This piece is part of “Mother Load,” a TAP special report on work/family issues. The backlash against the reigning “ideal worker” construct — long hours away from home, 24/7 availability, always ready to travel — has been mounting for some time now. It’s self-evident not just among working moms and work-life analysts but […]
Jeanine Plant
Jeanine Plant is a New York-based freelance writer.
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Everybody Get Together
Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books, 320 pages) Saturday’s antiwar march featured thousands of protesters on the National Mall, celebrity speakers, a well-financed lobbying campaign, and ample media coverage. And yet it’s unlikely that the troops will be sent home now; the escalation may even move forward. […]
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Consumerism and Its Discontents
Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery by Alex Kuczynski (Doubleday, 304 pages) Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine (Free Press, 288 pages) “You have got to be kidding me,” Alex Kuczynski’s mother says with a “look of disdain” when Kuczynski suggests she get pulsed light-laser therapy and […]