Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward Audiobook (Free)

A rousing call to arms, packed with amazing insights, that explores how carrying ‘the mental load’-the thankless day-to-day anticipating of needs and solving of complications huge and small-is adversely affecting women’s lives and feeding gender inequality, and shows the way forwards for better balancing our lives.

Launching a heated national conversation with her viral article ‘Women Aren’t Nags; We’re Just Fed Up’-viewed over two billion times-journalist Gemma Hartley provided voice to the about COMPLETELY FED UP: Psychological Labor, Women, and the Way Forward aggravation and anger of countless women investing in the hidden, underappreciated, and certainly draining mental function that includes keeping everyone within their lives comfy and happy. Bringing long overdue understanding to the daunting reality of psychological labor inside our lives, Hartley defines the mainly invisible but challenging, time-consuming, and exhausting ‘get worried function’ that falls disproportionately and unfairly on all women-no matter their financial class or degree of education.

Synthesizing a wide variety of sources-history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology-Hartley makes the invisible visible, unveiling the surprising designs emotional labor will take at work, in the home, in relationships, and in parenting. With on-the-ground confirming, identifiable personal stories and interviews from all over the world, this feminist manifesto will empower women to transform their internal dialogue and give all women the emotional fortitude and courage to require what we should most want-without shame, without guilt, and without the emotional baggage.

Beyond naming the issue, Fed Up gives practical suggestions and solutions for teaching both men and women how to wield emotional labor to live more full and satisfying lives. Hartley helps us to find out emotional labor not as a problem to become overcome, but like a genderless virtue we can all learn to channel in our quest to make a better, even more egalitarian world for ourselves & most importantly, our kids. Insightful, unexpected, deeply relatable, and filled with all too familiar occasions, this provocative, smart, and empathetic information is vital reading for each and every girl who has had enough with sense fed up.