Most Popular Books by Susan Maushart

Wifework is a fiercely argued, in-depth look at the inequitable division of labor between husbands and wives. Bolstering her own personal experience as a twice-married mother of three with substantial research and broad statistical evidence, Susan Maushart explores the theoretical and evolutionary reasons behind marriage inequality. She forces us to consider why 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce, and why women are responsible for initiating three-quarters of them. If family life is worth saving, and Maushart passionately believes it is, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Susan Maushart was born in New York and has lived in Australia since 1985. Her first book, Sort of a Place Like Home, won a Festival Award for Literature at the Adelaide Festival in 1994, and her second, The Mask of Motherhood, was published to international acclaim. She is a senior research associate at Curtin University, a columnist for the Australian Magazine and lives in Perth with her three children. ''An often funny dissection of modern marriage...100 percent honest. [A] smart and witty book.'' -Publishers Weekly ''With good-humored aplomb, Maushart makes clear she doesn''t think marriage or men are "rotten", but that "the way we typically divide up the business-and the pleasure, too-of our adult relationships is inefficient, maladaptive, and unfair.''-Bookpage ''Maushart assembles an overwhelming amount of data documenting how marriage has perpetuated inequities between husband and wife.''-Christian Science Monitor Daily ''Susan Maushart''s heartfelt and incendiary Wifework is a brief against traditional marriage that took me back to the galvanizing effect of reading Friedan.'' -Salon.com ''A wake-up call for women feeling trapped by marriage.''-Booklist

With all the choices available to today''s women, why don''t they more feel fulfilled? What Women Want Next is Susan Maushart''s meditation-by turns profound and laugh-out-loud funny-on that central dilemma of postfeminist life. At one point she had it all, so why wasn''t she happy? With What Women Want Next, Maushart combines research with personal history in a dynamic attempt to answer this question. Feminism may have led women to life''s banquet table, but the meal they make of it is up to them. How to balance life and work, sex and sleep, child care and self-care? And why has women''s guilt-that glass ceiling of the soul-become the biggest barrier they face? What Women Want Next is the first book to look at the spectrum of a woman''s life and attempt to demonstrate how she can shape her own destiny throughout all its stages.

Becoming a mother is filled with the extremes of emotion --the highest highs and the lowest lows. But women are often reluctant to talk honestly about the experience for fear they''ll be seen as bad mothers. With wit and candor, The Mask of Motherhood takes on the myths and the misinformation, helping women to prepare and deal with the depth of feeling that comes with the experience and perhaps most important, it lets them know that many, if not most, new mothers are feeling the same way.Susan Maushart, sociologist and mother of three, explores how motherhood affects our marriages and friendships, our relationships with parents, our sex lives, and our self-esteem. In The Mask of Motherhood, mothers will find the comfort and reassurance they are looking for, and confirmation that, indeed, motherhood is the toughest job in the world, but can also be the most rewarding.

The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family''s entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-bitsiest iPod Shuffle to her son''s seriously souped-up gaming PC-her three kids didn''t blink an eye. Says Maushart: "Looking back, I can understand why. They didn''t hear me." For any parent who''s ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table, this account of one family''s self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you LOLing with recognition. But it will also make you think. The Winter of Our Disconnect challenges readers to examine the toll that technology is taking on their own family connections, and to create a media ecology that instead encourages kids-and parents-to thrive. Indeed, as a self-confessed single mom who "slept with her iPhone," Maushart knew her family''s exile from Cyburbia wasn''t going to be any easier for her than for her three teenagers, ages fourteen, fifteen, and eighteen. Yet they all soon discovered that the rewards of becoming "unplugged" were more rich and varied than any cyber reality could ever be.

Interviews with; Hazel Anderson, Jim and Myrtle Brennan, Robert Bropho, Eric Conway, Ken Colbung, Doreen Dalgety, Elizabeth Dalgety, Ralph Dalgety, Jack Davis, Olive Hart , Vincent Lambadgee, Ned Mippy, Phyllis Mippy, Edie Moore , Alice Nannup, Angus Wallam and Bella Yappo - are the basis for this history of the Moore River Native Settlement; includes an annotated selection of articles from Western Australian newspapers; biography of Gladys Gilligan compiled from archival documents and a fictional account of A.O. Neville addressing a class of Aboriginal children.

Under ett halvår ska den iPhone-beroende mamman och journalisten Susan Maushart och hennes tre teknikknarkande tonårsbarn leva nedkopplade. Hon kallar det för ett experiment. Barnen kallar det för tortyr. NEDKOPPLAD är en underhållande familjeskildring (många LOL!) men också en seriös undersökning av hur vi använder teknik och hur den påverkar våra liv: Är den yngre generationen verkligen bättre på att göra flera saker samtidigt? Förenklar ny teknik alltid våra liv? Hur påverkas våra relationer av att vi tittar mer på skärmar än på varandra? Att vara nedkopplad medför problem, både praktiskt och känslomässigt. Men när bitarna väl börjar falla på plats så sker något oväntat familjen som tidigare brukade sitta framför varsin skärm och skicka snabbmeddelande till varandra via nätet börjar plötsligt att prata med varandra, spela spel och äta gemensamma middagar, något som var helt otänkbart före Experimentet. Susan Maushart har haft Henry David Thoreaus "Walden" som inspirationskälla innan och under Experimentet, och precis som Thoreaus resa handlar "Nedkopplad" inte om att fly från verkligheten tvärtom handlar den om att komma närmare en verklighet som ständigt verkar glida längre ifrån oss. "Nedkopplad" skildrar med lika stor del humor som allvar vad det faktiskt innebär att vi idag nästa alltid är uppkopplade. Missa inte berättelsen om hur sex månaders digital avgiftning förändrar fyra personer för alltid.

Photographer Frances Andrijich''s unusual fascination with the clothesline has made the world just a little brighter. Paired with Susan Maushart''s witty and illuminating text, these images are by turns whimsical, meditative and transgressive, and have all the intoxicating freshness of a basket of sun-dried sheets.# Inspired by the obsession of one of Australia''s finest photographers and teamed with an internationally acclaimed author who has finally come to terms with our passion for the clothesline. This book not only notices clotheslines. It showcases them. Contemplates them.Celebrates them.Drags them from the back blocks to centre stage, to take their rightful place in the sun. Retro-kitschy-cult-classic crossed with post-feminist whimsy wedded to an unimpeachable aesthetic.

Une famille, trois ados, zéro média électronique Vous avez trois cents amis sur Facebook et quatre cent cinquante followers sur Twitter, mais à quand remonte le dernier dîner en famille où vous avez eu une vraie conversation avec vos enfants ? Le monde va-t-il vraiment s''arrêter de tourner si vous éteignez votre smartphone ? Voilà le genre de questions que se pose Susan Maushart quand elle embarque ses trois adolescents de quatorze, quinze et dix-huit ans dans une cure de déconnexion de tous les médias électroniques pendant six mois. Peu à peu les enfants, "natifs numériques" qui ne se contentent pas d''utiliser les médias mais vivent dans les médias, sont amenés à réfléchir sur leur comportement. Et Susan ne ressort pas non plus indemne de cette expérience qui l''amènera quelques mois plus tard à bouleverser totalement sa vie. Édifiant et drôle, son carnet de bord retrace les différentes étapes de cette aventure gratifiante où la famille reconquiert toutes les bonnes choses dont la technologie numérique peut nous priver si nous n''y prenons pas garde.

SCHOOLS. AUSTRALIAN. There is an African proverb that states "if we stand tall it is only because we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors". We mark the first one hundred years of Presbyterian Ladies'' College in Perth, with an official history of our ''ancestors'' - students, parents, staff, Council Chairs and members, Principals, Ministers and benefactors who have shaped and sustained one of the leading schools for girls in Western Australia. Our history is all the more fascinating because it is set against the history of Perth and Western Australia; of the women''s movement; Presbyterian and Uniting Churches and of education. Above all, though, it is about the people who have shaped the School of today - the ones on whose shoulders we stand.

" Através de um experimento bastante desafiador para o mundo atual, Susan Maushart reúne nesta obra o lado pessoal e a pesquisa científica. Quem, hoje em dia, poderia imaginar uma casa com três adolescentes (e uma mãe na menopausa) totalmente desconectada de qualquer mídia durante seis meses? Numa época em que os celulares tomam conta de nossos bolsos e os computadores, de nossos olhos, uma ideia como essa pode parecer um filme de ficção científica às avessas. Mas trata-se, na verdade, de uma experiência que vai além da nostalgia pelos tempos pré-internet e valoriza nossas qualidades mais humanas, como, por exemplo, a de nos conectarmos... com aqueles que estão à nossa volta, ao vivo, em cores e do outro lado da mesa de jantar. Com bom humor, a autora prova que a questão, nem tão simples e fácil como pode parecer, é saber usar as mídias sem deixar que elas ocupem todos os espaços da Vida Real... Tente, se for capaz. O inverno da nossa desconexão: como uma mãe e três adolescentes passaram seis meses totalmente desconectados e sobreviveram para contar a história é uma narrativa despretensiosa e bem humorada sobre os dilemas que conectam as famílias nos dias de hoje. "

O que você quer de verdade? Mais sexo e de melhor qualidade? Menos sexo? Uma carreira de sucesso? Amor verdadeiro, um belo casamento, filhos? Ainda pretende ter tudo ou se contenta com cinco minutos de paz e tranqüilidade quando se tranca no banheiro a cada quinze dias? O que as mulheres querem é um livro para insatisfeitos de ambos os sexos. Susan Maushart dá asas a seu ótimo humor e estilo para abordar questões complicadas da realização feminina em um mundo pós-feminista. O que as mulheres querem mesmo, desde amor até sexo, casamento e maternidade, amigos, família e carreira? E quanto de cada uma dessas coisas elas conseguem ter?

Kritische evaluatie van de positie van de gehuwde vrouw vanuit een postfeministische invalshoek.

Maridos e esposas podem até dizer que estão igualmente comprometidos numa relação conjugal. Mas, quer trabalhem fora quer não, as mulheres ainda realizam a maior parte do trabalho físico, emocional e organizacional dentro do casamento - tudo, desde as tarefas domésticas até às ''tarefas sexuais''. O papel da esposa se resume a essa incansável rotina de manutenção de marido, e é a essência da desilusão feminina. Neste livro, Susan Maushart registra o dilema das esposas e explora suas conseqüências para todos os envolvidos - homens, mulheres e também filhos.