★跨越德、美、英、意、法、荷、挪、俄、瑞典等世界各国，考察百余种经典儿童文学与教育手册，展现不同文化背景下对情感的认知与学习的异同。 ★焦虑、信任、虔诚、同情、同理、爱、羞耻、痛苦、恐惧、勇敢、思乡、无聊，十三位情感史研究专家，勾勒十二种情绪的百年发展史。 ★从《绿野仙 踪》到《霍比特人》，从《鲁滨逊漂流记》到《爱丽丝漫游奇境》……我们习以为常的情感并非天生，而是通过阅读形塑，并不断改变。 ★“光启·情感史”系列第一部，美国罗文大学历史系教授、北京大学长江讲座教授王晴佳策划作序，著名历史学者蒋竹山推荐 。填补儿童情绪史研究的空白，为儿童情感研究奠定框架。 本书研究百年来经典儿童文学如何引导孩童与青少年认识感觉、学习情绪，由德国马克斯·普朗克人类发展研究所情感研究中心主任、耶鲁大学德国史教授、柏林自由大学荣誉教授乌特·弗雷弗特主编，集合该中心的数位情感史研究专家共同撰写。 1870-1970年是儿童文学发展的黄金时期，也是对儿童情感的讨论最蓬勃发展的年代，儿童被视为需要教养的独立于成人的个体，无数童书与教育手册协助父母引导儿童学习情感、掌控情绪，并由此发展出“健全”的人格。本书即通过考察这一时期来自世界各国的百余种畅销儿童文学与教养手册，还原其阅读情境与读者反应，探索儿童和青少年如何通过阅读来学习感受、认识情感。在阅读儿童文学的过程中，儿童会与书中主人公一起体验成长，通过模仿与自我调整，学习各种情绪，并且将这些情绪转化成知识。作者们也将这些情感置于历史转折与社会变迁中讨论，勾勒出十二种情绪的百年发展史。 在探讨这些书籍传递出哪些情绪知识以成为儿童的情感养分时，本书分析了许多我们耳熟能详的经典作品，如儿童如何在《蝇王》中学到“羞耻”“痛苦”与“同理心”，通过《阿尔卑斯山的少女》懂得“分离焦虑”；而曾被鄙视的“胆怯”，在《绿野仙踪》里有了新的诠释，从托尔金的《魔戒》《霍比特人》到刘易斯的《纳尼亚传奇》，恐惧的概念又变得更加复杂……这些作品鼓励儿童拥抱恐惧、摆脱羞耻，接受思乡病为一种合情合理的感觉，并赋予儿童掌握自我情绪的权利，儿童有了不同的选择与空间，同时也开始需要为自己的情绪负责。

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty rates. Can American women look to European policies for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that sociologist Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' desires and expectations depend heavily on context. In Sweden--renowned for its gender-equal policies--mothers assume they will receive support from their partners, employers, and the government. In the former East Germany, with its history of mandated employment, mothers don't feel conflicted about working, but some curtail their work hours and ambitions. Mothers in western Germany and Italy, where maternalist values are strong, are stigmatized for pursuing careers. Meanwhile, American working mothers stand apart for their guilt and worry. Policies alone, Collins discovers, cannot solve women's struggles. Easing them will require a deeper understanding of cultural beliefs about gender equality, employment, and motherhood. With women held to unrealistic standards in all four countries, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family. Making Motherhood Work vividly demonstrates that women need not accept their work-family conflict as inevitable. "Collins, a sociology professor, draws on interviews with working mothers in four different countries in this evenhanded, discerning exploration of work-family balance. Organizing her research by country, Collins finds that balance requires a harmonious confluence of workplace accommodations, government policies, and supportive cultural attitude. . . . Collins suggests that policies must be passed in packages, rather than piecemeal--for example, making sure that daycare is available for children at the age when parental leave ends--to be most useful. This study, whose comparative approach illuminates how cultural norms affect policies and economic results, is intelligent, thought-provoking, and clarifying."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Making Motherhood Work is destined to become a classic. Caitlyn Collins conducted in-depth interviews with 135 employed, middle-class mothers in the United States and in three European countries. She finds that mothers face conflict between their work and family responsibilities in all four countries, even gender-egalitarian Sweden. Collins points to European policies that could positively impact mothers and families in the United States. Yet she notes the pervasive influence of cultural expectations of mothers that are coercive and unattainable. All four countries need a cultural redefinition of motherhood that describes and honors what is possible."--Mary Blair-Loy, author of Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women "Comparing women in Europe and the United States and how they combine work and motherhood, Making Motherhood Work is the first cross-cultural investigation of what it feels like to live within different cultural and policy worlds. Mothers (and fathers)--even future ones--need to read this fascinating, thought-provoking, and illuminating book."--Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity "Through insightful interviews with employed mothers living in diverse national contexts, Caitlyn Collins demonstrates clearly and convincingly that our growing caregiving crisis stems from unjust social arrangements, not irresponsible individuals. The breadth and depth of Making Motherhood Work make it a unique and invaluable contribution that calls for nothing less than a worldwide movement for work-family justice."--Kathleen Gerson, author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family "This ambitious and beautifully written book considers how women manage work and family in varying contexts. Carrying out wide-scale interviews in multiple settings and countries, Making Motherhood Work shows how differences in work-family policies lead to differences in the challenges that women face. An impressive contribution."--Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst