Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality

Shattered

If we live in an age of equality, why are women are still left holding the baby? A revolutionary new manifesto for achieving a new equality of the sexes in family life.

I was utterly gripped. This is powerful stuff. Rebecca Asher's take of the culture of parenting is radical, original and refreshingly spirited, a heartfelt call for change

Asher is an elegant writer and a lucid thinker... This is a polemical book, stuffed full of research and case studies; yet it is gripping enough to read through the night. It left me fired up with reformist zeal

A furious, but immensely articulate, puncturing of the myth that the nirvana of parental equality has been achieved... An intelligent, thoroughly researched and highly readable contribution to a debate that urgently needs to be aired in the corridors of power, as well as through gritted teeth over snatched cups of bitter coffee in baby and toddler groups

Asher wants a revolution, and her conviction is invigorating... This book should be read by parents and policymakers alike

Should be required reading for policy makers and new parents alike... This is the academic counterpart to the roller coaster of emotional experience that forms the basis for books such as Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work

A brilliant and refreshingly honest contribution to the debate on how we raise our children... Asher writes in a way that skilfully pursues a compelling argument and thoughtful solutions in an accessible manner. As such, the book deserves a wide audience

Her writing on motherhood belongs to the brisk, outward-looking, pamphleteering tradition of Mary Wollstonecraft. Asher does not interrogate herself; she interrogates the world

This insightful, thrillingly honest, well-argued and often very funny book should be required reading for all thinking parents and prospective parents... Nothing is as useful as a book that is both heartfelt and intellectually rigorous, and no subject is as important as the way we raise our children. What Asher has achieved here is superb

Rebecca Asher has worked in television news and current affairs and as the Deputy Editor of Woman's Hour and an Executive Producer at BBC Radio 4. She lives in London with her husband and two children. Shattered is her first book. 
 
www.rebeccaasher.com

If we live in an age of equality, why are women are still left holding the baby? 
 
A revolutionary manifesto for achieving a new equality of the sexes in family life. 
 
 
Today, women outperform men at school and university. They make a success of their early careers and enter into relationships on their own terms. But once they have children, their illusions of equality are swiftly shattered as the time machine of motherhood transports them back to the 1950s. 
 
 
Entertaining and controversial, Shattered exposes the inequalities that still exist between women and men - at work, at home and within relationships - and sets out a bold manifesto for a more fulfilling family life. 
 
'Powerful' Daily Telegraph 
'Gripping' Mail on Sunday 
'Invigorating' Guardian

Rebecca Asher

Interesting...vivid...a valuable book for parents. Man Up employs meticulous research to examine how boys and men are faring today… Strive[s] to illuminate - shining torches out into the modern world.

Timely and necessary ... populated by thoughtful interviewees, many of whom are trying to change things

A powerful, thought-provoking call to arms

Man Up provides a warning to all parents. If we don't like what we see out there in the society of grown men ... then we need to tackle seriously the culture at this young age. One of Asher’s biggest messages is that we need to show more “love, compassion and understanding for boys”

Asher…has done a great deal of research…and writes with exemplary clarity, even-handedness and sympathy.

A rousing examination of why society’s demands on men and boys are bad for everybody.

How Do Boys Become Better Men

'Excellent' Robert Webb, author of How Not To Be A Boy 
'A valuable book for parents' Barbara Ellen, Observer 
 
Why are boys three times more likely than girls to be suspended from school? And four times more likely to have behavioural difficulties? Why do men make up 75% of suicides and 95% of prisoners? 
 
From babyhood through school and adolescence, to work and relationships, fatherhood and old-age, Man Up investigates the unique difficulties boys and men encounter today. Through fascinating research and real-life case studies, this book shows that change is possible and that there is room for men and boys to find greater fulfilment and happiness – to the benefit of everyone.

Rebecca Asher

Praise for Man Up

Interesting...vivid...a valuable book for parents. Man Up employs meticulous research to examine how boys and men are faring today… Strive[s] to illuminate - shining torches out into the modern world.

Timely and necessary ... populated by thoughtful interviewees, many of whom are trying to change things

A powerful, thought-provoking call to arms

Interesting...vivid...a valuable book for parents. Man Up employs meticulous research to examine how boys and men are faring today… Strive[s] to illuminate - shining torches out into the modern world.

Timely and necessary ... populated by thoughtful interviewees, many of whom are trying to change things

A powerful, thought-provoking call to arms

Interesting...vivid...a valuable book for parents. Man Up employs meticulous research to examine how boys and men are faring today… Strive[s] to illuminate - shining torches out into the modern world.

Timely and necessary ... populated by thoughtful interviewees, many of whom are trying to change things

A powerful, thought-provoking call to arms

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