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Stress. Everyone is talking about it, suffering from it, trying
desperately to manage it-now more than ever. From 1970 to 1980,
2,326 academic articles appeared with the word "stress" in the
title. In the decade between 2000 and 2010 that number jumped to
21,750. Has life become ten times more stressful, or is it the
stress concept itself that has grown exponentially over the past 40
years? In One Nation Under Stress, Dana Becker argues that our
national infatuation with the therapeutic culture has created a
middle-class moral imperative to manage the tensions of daily life
by turning inward, ignoring the social and political realities that
underlie those tensions. Becker shows that although stress is often
associated with conditions over which people have little control-
workplace policies unfavorable to family life, increasing economic
inequality, war in the age of terrorism-the stress concept focuses
most of our attention on how individuals react to stress. A
proliferation of self-help books and dire medical warnings about
the negative effects of stress on our physical and emotional health
all place the responsibility for alleviating stress-though yoga,
deep breathing, better diet, etc.-squarely on the individual. The
stress concept has come of age in a period of tectonic social and
political shifts. Nevertheless, we persist in the all-American
belief that we can meet these changes by re-engineering ourselves
rather than tackling the root causes of stress. Examining both
research and popular representations of stress in cultural terms,
Becker traces the evolution of the social uses of the stress
concept as it has been transformed into an all-purpose vehicle for
defining, expressing, and containing middle-class anxieties about
upheavals in American society.
Set in the 1960s before Roe, a poignant and powerful novel in the vein
of Lessons in Chemistry and Big Little Lies, about the friendship
between a group of suburban housewives who help one another navigate
through their personal challenges, marriages, and their
pregnancies—both wanted and unwanted.
In 1965 America, women can’t have their own bank accounts, credit
cards, or sign their own leases; divorce is scandalous and difficult;
and abortion is illegal.
Every week, a group of suburban housewives meet for their Tuesday
canasta game. As cards are drawn and discarded, the women share advice
and confidences. When prim and proper Lily Berg, a doctor’s wife,
discovers she’s pregnant with their second child, she follows her
friend Becca’s suggestion and takes in Betsy, a pregnant teen from the
local home for unwed mothers. Betsy, who’s never met anyone Jewish
before, is to live with the Bergs for six months, help with babysitting
and housekeeping, have her own baby, and agree never to contact the
family again.
But things quickly get complicated. Lily, who’s opened her home to the
teenager, never planned on opening her heart, yet that’s exactly what
happens. Meanwhile, Becca is pregnant with her fourth, and comes up
with a scheme to get a legal, therapeutic abortion, and Lily’s sister,
Rose, discovers the man she married isn’t who he purported to be, and
turns to Lily and her husband for help.
Moving and atmospheric, full of history and heart, In the Family Way is
a timely novel that captures the experiences of women on the cusp of
liberation as they struggle with their own complex feelings about being
wives, mothers, and women with their own dreams and ambitions.
How far would you go to save your best friend? TO BE BORN OF THE
FOREST IS A GIFT AND A CURSE. Rora is a shifter, as magical as all
those born in the wilderness - and as feared. She uses her
abilities to spy for the king, traveling under different guises and
listening for signs of trouble. When a magical illness surfaces
across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating truth: Finley, the
young prince and her best friend, has caught it. His only hope is
stardust, the rarest of magical elements, found deep in the
wilderness where Rora grew up - and to which she swore never to
return. But for her only friend, Rora will face her past and brave
the dark, magical wood, journeying with her brother and the
obstinate, older prince who insists on coming. Together, they must
survive sentient forests and creatures unknown, battling an ever
changing landscape while escaping human pursuers who want them
dead. With illness gripping the kingdom and war on the horizon,
Finley's is not the only life that hangs in the balance.
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