Screaming on the Inside
The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
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Jessica Grose
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In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities
Close your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for DIY tips). She seamlessly melds work, wellness and home; and during the depths of the pandemic, she also ran remote school and woke up at 5 a.m. to meditate.
You may read this and think it’s bananas; you have probably internalized much of it.
Journalist Jessica Grose sure had. After she failed to meet every one of her own expectations for her first pregnancy, she devoted her career to revealing how morally bankrupt so many of these ideas and pressures are. Now, in Screaming on the Inside, Grose weaves together her personal journey with scientific, historical, and contemporary reporting to be the voice for American parents she wishes she’d had a decade ago.
The truth is that parenting cannot follow a recipe; there’s no foolproof set of rules that will result in a perfectly adjusted child. Every parent has different values, and we will have different ideas about how to pass those values along to our children. What successful parenting has in common, regardless of culture or community, is close observation of the kind of unique humans our children are. In thoughtful and revelatory chapters about pregnancy, identity, work, social media, and the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, Grose explains how we got to this moment, why the current state of expectations on mothers is wholly unsustainable, and how we can move towards something better.
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- By: Sharon Meers, Joanna Strober
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
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Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and most powerful ally - the man you married.
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- By Tristan Matthews on 01-09-15
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All the Single Ladies
- Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
- By: Rebecca Traister
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Rebecca Traister - introduction
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In a provocative, groundbreaking work, National Magazine Award finalist Rebecca Traister, "the most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" (Anne Lamott), traces the history of unmarried women in America who, through social, political, and economic means, have radically shaped our nation.
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Excellent book, destroyed by narration
- By Theresa Holleran on 03-06-16
By: Rebecca Traister
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The Wife Drought
- By: Annabel Crabb
- Narrated by: Annabel Crabb
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'I need a wife'. It's a common joke among women juggling work and family, but it's no joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a godsend on the domestic front and an asset on the work front and is an advantage enjoyed by vastly more men than women. Full of candid and funny stories from politics and the media, The Wife Drought shares intriguing research about the attitudes pulsing beneath the surface of egalitarian Australia.
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A read for everyone
- By RubyH on 02-01-24
By: Annabel Crabb
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Your Turn
- How to Be an Adult
- By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Narrated by: Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
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What does it mean to be an adult? In the 20th century, psychologists came up with five markers of adulthood: finish your education, get a job, leave home, marry, and have children. Since then, every generation has been held to those same markers. Yet so much has changed about the world and living in it since that sequence was formulated. All of those markers are choices, and they’re all valid, but any one person’s choices along those lines do not make them more or less an adult.
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Not the book that was advertised
- By M. Rogers on 04-13-21
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Here's the Plan.
- Your Practical, Tactical Guide to Advancing Your Career During Pregnancy and Parenting
- By: Allyson Downey
- Narrated by: Danielle Fornes Quinlan, Allyson Downey
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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For many women in their 20s and 30s, the greatest professional hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still subject to a "parenting penalty", and high-profile conflicts between parenting and the workplace are all over the news, from the controversy over companies covering the costs of egg freezing to the debate over parental leave and child care inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's two-month paternity leave.
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Great insight
- By Jen on 08-08-18
By: Allyson Downey
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The End of Men
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- By: Hanna Rosin
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Men have been the dominant sex since - well, the dawn of mankind. And yet, as journalist Hanna Rosin discovered, that long-held truth is no longer true. At this unprecedented moment, women are no longer merely gaining on men; they have pulled decisively ahead by almost every measure. Already "the end of men" - the phrase Rosin coined - has entered the lexicon as indelibly as Simone de Beauvoir’s "second sex", Betty Friedan’s "feminine mystique", Susan Faludi’s "backlash", and Naomi Wolf’s "beauty myth" have.
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Great book, don't care for the reader's style
- By Darren on 12-05-12
By: Hanna Rosin
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To Have and to Hold
- Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
- By: Molly Millwood
- Narrated by: Molly Millwood
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A clinical psychologist’s exploration of the modern dilemmas women face in the wake of new motherhood. When Molly Millwood became a mother, she was fully prepared for what she would gain: an adorable baby boy; hard-won mothering skills; and a messy, chaotic, beautiful life. But what she did not expect was what she would lose: aspects of her identity, a baseline level of happiness, a general sense of well-being.
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Pretty good
- By C Sandell on 03-07-21
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A Strange Stirring
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- By: Stephanie Coontz
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Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
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Good histroy and well written
- By Hannah Lasher on 06-18-16
By: Stephanie Coontz
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Ready or Not
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- By: Madeline Levine
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Ready or Not explores how today’s parenting techniques and our myopic educational system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain future - and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness.
By: Madeline Levine
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
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- By: Meghan Daum
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
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One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis" and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all - a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children - before their biological clocks stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life.
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Am I the only sane childfree woman in here?
- By J. Malouin on 09-29-15
By: Meghan Daum
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
- One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
- By: Jason DeParle
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
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When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age - the age of global migration. In a monumental book that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism", DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class.
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Excellent and Important
- By Booklover on 03-22-20
By: Jason DeParle
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Generation Me
- Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before
- By: Jean M. Twenge PhD
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In this provocative new book, psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls "Generation Me" - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious. Dr. Twenge reveals how profoundly different today's young adults are - and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole.
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I mostly agree
- By David Hill on 05-25-20
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- lauren
- 09-09-24
Lots of complaining, without solutions
I understand the complaining, because parenting in today’s world is tough…but I just kept waiting for some solutions, or how she moved through these situations in a way that could be helpful to the reader.
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- No1Dad
- 01-26-23
Great book!
Grose is telling readers the truth of pandemic motherhood. Easy to follow along and listen to.
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- MR
- 08-11-23
So well said
I read many reviews before going into this reading. Some said that it touched on some issues but not all issues of being a mother. To this reviews I say…how would you touch on all of motherhood in one book? I think to appreciate the book you must be in a place of acceptance for what the author is saying. 7 years ago when I had three children under three as a full time bread winner for my family I would still have not been in a place to appreciate the validity of this book. Now, at 36, with four children, and with a career I am trying to grow-I identify with all the hardships of motherhood and identity discussed. I feel the stress of previous norms often vocalized through my own mother and my rejection of those norms feels ok after reading this book. So thank you for your dedicated research, and for humanizing and validating my feelings.
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- Melly
- 01-24-23
Wish it offered more solutions -- maybe follow up?
I definitely related to this book. I experienced much of the same as my entire "mom" experience from taking maternity leave, unequal shared childcare, no family support, lack of promotion in the workforce due to childcare constraints, and topped off with working full time + pandemic schooling. I wanted to love this book but I just felt it offered a lot of observations & history and not a lot of support in how to help fix it for yourself. I wish they focused on the mental health aspect more and possibly even how this impacts the divorce rates among couples, especially when the kids graduate high school. I left feeling more depressed and hopeless of my situation in a male dominated career field while being the primary care taker of 2 kids.
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- Jordan
- 01-07-23
Wonderful, informative, and infuriating.
This book gave context to my personal observations and experience of the pressures of being a woman in the United States. The content of Screaming on the Inside is deeply important.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-21-23
Left me hollow
This book was like a doughnut- so good at first, but leaves you wanting more and hungrier than before. Some of the facts presented are anecdotal at best.
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- Chendo
- 12-29-22
Well done - leaves a little to be desired
I would (and have!) recommend this to mothers and anyone who cares about the perspective of mothers, but I was hoping it would go a little more into the mental health aspects.
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- mushana
- 05-02-23
Great recap of what Millennial motherhood is
It was captivating and validating. Thoughtful research presented and highlighted the issues mothers feel today and felt throughout the pandemic.
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- Sara Smith
- 07-19-23
Excellent
Well researched and interesting, and so unfortunately relatable. I both enjoyed and felt triggered by this book, but highly recommend it… and recommend playing it out loud for friends, family, partners, and especially expectant mothers.
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- Jackie Hoermann-Elliott
- 01-08-23
Better than Imagined
I loved this book, the research, the logic, the solid arguments within it. Grose is a great writer, who kept my attention from start to finish.
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