Wednesday Martin est une chercheuse sociale qui explore les complexités des dynamiques familiales. Son travail se concentre sur les territoires inexplorés de la vie domestique, offrant des aperçus profonds sur la psychologie des relations. À travers ses écrits et ses recherches, elle cherche à éclairer et à normaliser des expériences souvent négligées ou mal comprises, offrant ainsi aux lecteurs une nouvelle perspective sur les complexités de la connexion humaine.
From ancient Greek tragedies, to the latest Netflix series, cheating women are portrayed as dangerous and damaged. Why, in this age of female empowerment, do we continue to judge them so harshly? Martin takes us on a fascinating journey to reveal the unexpected evolutionary legacy and social realities that drive female faithlessness, while laying bare our motivations to contain women who step out. From recent data suggesting women may struggle more than men with sexual exclusivity, to Martin's assertion that female sexual autonomy is the ultimate metric of gender equality, this book will change the way you think about women and sex. -- adapted from jacket
A groundbreaking and truly stepmother-centered way of understanding the
tensions that seem to define relations between women and their
stepchildrenHalf of all women in the United States will live with or marry a
man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has notin order to defuse
the often overwhelming challenges of the rolereferred to herself as a
stepmonster? As Hope Edelman does in her book for motherless daughters,
Wednesday Martins empowering and original Stepmonster unlocks the emotional
mysteries of why stepmothers think and feel and act the way they do. Martin
draws upon her own experience as a stepmother, interviews with other
stepmothers and stepchildren, and fascinating insights from literature,
anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology to reveal the little-
understood realities of this most demanding role. Stepmonster illuminates the
harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, considers the myths and realities
of being married to a man with children, counteracts the cultural notion that
stepmothers are solely responsible for the challenges they encounter,
identifies the Five Step-Dilemmas That Create Conflict, and considers the
emotional and social challenges men with children face when they remarry.
Finally, in an unexpected twist, Martin shows why the myth of the Wicked
Stepmother is our single best tool for understanding who real stepmothers are
and how they feel. [BACK FLAP][INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO]Wednesday Martin holds a
PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale. She was a regular contributor to New
York Post's parenting page for more than five years, and her work has appeared
in a number of national magazines. Martin, a stepmother for nine years, lives
in New York City with her husband and their two sons.
A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex. Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right? Wrong. In Untrue, New York Times -bestselling author Wednesday Martin reveals that we are just at the beginning of understanding women's sexuality properly. From New York to Namibia to a conference of sex researchers in Montreal, she takes us on a journey to understand women who refuse monogamy, posing questions about why we became sexually exclusive in the first place. Martin attends all-female sex parties where married straight women fulfill their fantasies; considers contemporary societies where women take many lovers; analyses how the invention of the plough suppressed female autonomy; and presents fascinating research about why women stray (their motivations are not so different from men's). Frank and myth busting, Untruevalidates the desires of women everywhere, including the 'silent majority' in committed relationships who struggle with staying faithful.
"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"-- Provided by publisher
