TWO YEARS WITHOUT SLEEP: Working Moms Talk About Having a Baby and a Job [Paperback]

Cathy Feldman (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1883423015 | ISBN-13: 978-1883423018 | Publication Date: June 1993

Two Years Without Sleep combines funny, moving, perceptive quotes from working moms, facts, advice from experts, and illustrations in an easy-to-read format. The book offers real support for women who are trying to figure out how to do it all and survive. Women love it and men say it's full of things they never understood before. It's the first in Cathy Feldman's Working Women series of books.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Reading the trio of books is like listening to the conversations of working women who have gotten away from the office and had a couple of beers. They intersperse statistics about the growing power of women in the work force with helpful advice on how to cope and powerful anecdotes about just what it is that women are coping with." -- Mary Ann Gwinn, buisness reporter, Seattle Times

Two Years Without Sleep gives voice to women trying to do a good job in both the work world and on the home front. In Two Years Without Sleep and two subsequent books [I Work Too and The Men at the Office], Feldman lets women share their own stories, recount their difficulties and just generally vent on a variety of mom- and work-related topics. She also mixes in statistics, commentary from experts and survival tips." -- Nancy Rivera Brooks, "Balancing Act", Los Angeles Times

A sanity check for working moms. -- Shirley Cheramy, former managing partner, Price Waterhouse, LLP

About the Author

Cathy Feldman, editor/publisher of Two Years Without Sleep: Working Moms Talk About Having A Baby and A Job, The Men At The Office: Working Women Talk About Working With Men, and I Work Too: Working Wives Talk About their Dual-Career Lives, is an editor and researcher living in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism and mass communication. She began her business career in advertising and became director of advertising for a major California retail chain. Fifteen years ago Cathy started her own research company, and Blue Point Books grew out of her research work. She met so many interesting women who told her great stories about their experiences in the workplace, she knew she had to try to put them together in a book. But when people to whom she showed the prototype of the first book, Two Years Without Sleep in a three-ring binder said they wanted to buy it for their employees, she became a publisher and started Blue Point Books.

Cathy has interviewed more than 600 women from all over the country in a wide variety of professions. She describes the Blue Point Books project as a grass-roots effort made possible by a very informal network of people who want to share information and experiences.

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Blue Point Books (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883423015
• ISBN-13: 978-1883423018
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #830,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #50 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > Marriage & Family
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