Professor Christine Beckman, Associate Director of the Price Center, Price Family Chair of Social Innovation, and Professor of Public Policy, and co-author Melissa Mazmanian, have a new book called Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age. It is an ethnographic account of working parents’ efforts to be Ideal Workers, Perfect Parents, and Ultimate Bodies. The book highlights how technology intensifies these myths of perfection, celebrates the people who actually do the work of scaffolding the dreams of those around them, and reveals the hidden sources of gender inequality in everyday life.
Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age
Year: 2020