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The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work

Leslie Bella
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Description:When we think of Christmas we think of leisure: family, friends, festivity and gifts. But for whom? Who makes it all happen? Is Christmas leisure time for everyone?Leslie Bella says "no." For the women, the mothers who buy the gifts, prepare the feasts and create the festive atmosphere, it may be more work and anguish than leisure.Drawing on the experience of many women, Bella finds that they share her own ambivalence and pain around the festive season. "All," Bella explains, "feel compelled to celebrate Christmas, many felt guilty if their efforts fell short of perfection." All too often Christmas exacerbates sadness and division. In spite of women's attempts to hide family tensions at Christmas, if pain predominates in a family, Christmas reproduces that pain. "And yet," says Bella, "so many of us feel we must reproduce Christmas - to recapture golden memories of the time when we still believed in magic."This book brings to us a new understanding of the concepts of "family" and "leisure" and they are manifest in the Christmas experience. In these illustrated pages we learn about the origins of Christmas, its impact and how it may be transformed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work. To get started finding The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
252
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Release
1992
ISBN
1895686091

The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work

Leslie Bella
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: When we think of Christmas we think of leisure: family, friends, festivity and gifts. But for whom? Who makes it all happen? Is Christmas leisure time for everyone?Leslie Bella says "no." For the women, the mothers who buy the gifts, prepare the feasts and create the festive atmosphere, it may be more work and anguish than leisure.Drawing on the experience of many women, Bella finds that they share her own ambivalence and pain around the festive season. "All," Bella explains, "feel compelled to celebrate Christmas, many felt guilty if their efforts fell short of perfection." All too often Christmas exacerbates sadness and division. In spite of women's attempts to hide family tensions at Christmas, if pain predominates in a family, Christmas reproduces that pain. "And yet," says Bella, "so many of us feel we must reproduce Christmas - to recapture golden memories of the time when we still believed in magic."This book brings to us a new understanding of the concepts of "family" and "leisure" and they are manifest in the Christmas experience. In these illustrated pages we learn about the origins of Christmas, its impact and how it may be transformed.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work. To get started finding The Christmas Imperative: Leisure, Family, and Women's Work, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
252
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Release
1992
ISBN
1895686091

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