Wonder Women (Frames Series), eBook: Navigating the Challenges of Motherhood, Career, and Identity
By Barna Group and Kate Harris
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There is a new reality for mothers in the 21st century-it's a different world with different goals than it was even a generation ago. As little girls, today's moms didn't grow up with ONLY dolls and toy kitchens and princesses and visions of idyllic domesticity and motherhood behind a white picket fence: they were given these but also a little plastic doctor's bag and a coloring book full of potential careers to choose from. "You can be anything you want, child." It's a message of empowerment and it's beautiful. But, as many of those young girls grew up, a message that was once meant to convey opportunity has begun to feel like a pressure cooker. What once was "You can have it all" has now become "You need to have it all." You need to have the perfect job, the perfect husband, the perfect house, the perfect kids, the perfect play dates and craft nights and date nights and DIY Pinterest projects and #nofilter Instagrams.
What does it mean to be a mom in a world like that? Where does vocation fit into all this? What does a holistic idea of self fit in? Many women struggle with the decision to work inside the home or outside the home. How can you maintain a sense of self and motherhood in both decisions?
The reality is we can't really have it all - sometimes we will have to make choices. This Barna Frame explores the value and beauty in those constraints. Join Kate Harris, wife, mother, and the executive director of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation, and Culture, as she unpacks the identity questions, the economic realities, and the role of the church in your life as you feel compelled to be wonder woman.
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CONTENTS
Why You Need Frames
• Before You Read
• Infographics
• Framework BY BARNA GROUP
• The Frame BY KATE HARRIS
• Re/Frame BY ANDY CROUCH
• After You Read
• Share This Frame
About the Research
About Barna Group
Thanks
Notes
WHY YOU NEED FRAMES
These days, you probably find yourself with less time than ever.
Everything seems like it’s moving at a faster pace — except your ability to keep up.
Somehow, you are weighed down with more obligations than you have ever had before.
Life feels more complicated. More complex.
If you’re like most people, you probably have lots of questions about how to live a life that matters. You feel as though you have more to learn than can possibly be learned. But with smaller chunks of time and more sources of information than ever before, where can you turn for real insight and livable wisdom?
Barna Group has produced this series to examine the complicated issues of life and to help you live more meaningfully. We call it FRAMES — like a good set of eyeglasses that help you see the world more clearly . . . or a work of art perfectly hung that invites you to look more closely . . . or a building’s skeleton, the part that is most essential to its structure.
The FRAMES Season 1 collection provides thoughtful and concise, data-driven and visually appealing insights for anyone who wants a more faith-driven and fulfilling life. In each FRAME we couple new cultural analysis from our team at Barna with an essay from leading voices in the field, providing information and ideas for you to digest in a more easily consumed number of words.
After all, it’s a fast-paced world, full of words and images vying for your attention. Most of us have a number of half-read or read someday
books on our shelves. But each FRAME aims to give you the essential information and real-life application behind one of today’s most crucial trends in less than one-quarter the length of most books. These are big ideas in small books — designed so you truly can read less but know more. And the infographics and ideas in this FRAME are intended for share-ability. So read it, then find someone to frame
with these ideas, and keep the conversation going (see Share This Frame
on page 85).
Furthermore, each FRAME brings a distinctly Christian point of view to today’s trends. In times of uncertainty, people look for guides. And we believe the Christian community is trying to make sense of the dramatic social changes happening around us.
Over the past thirty years, Barna Group has built a reputation as a trusted analyst of religion and culture. We offer cultural discernment for the Christian community by thoughtful analysts who care enough to tell the truth about what’s really happening in today’s society.
So sit back, but not for long. With FRAMES we invite you to read less and know more.
DAVID KINNAMAN
FRAMES, executive producer
president / Barna Group
ROXANNE STONE
FRAMES, general editor
vice president / Barna Group
Learn more at www.barnaframes.com.
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