Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk

By Patricia Volk

From the acclaimed writer of filled: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir, written with attraction and panache, that juxtaposes interesting lives—the iconoclastic dressmaker Elsa Schiaparelli and the author’s personal mother—to discover how a lady models herself right into a woman.

Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker, used to be an excellent good looks and the polished hostess at her family’s garment district eating place. Elsa Schiaparelli—“Schiap”—the high fashion clothier whose creations stunned the realm, blurred the road among model and artwork, and believed that every little thing, even a button, has the capability to delight.

Audrey’s daughter Patricia learn Schiap’s autobiography, surprising lifestyles, at a young age, and was once reworked via it. those women—volatile, opinionated, and magnificent each one in her personal way—offered Patricia contrasting classes approximately womanhood and private type that allowed her to devise her personal course.

Moving seamlessly among the Volks’ big apple and Florida milieux and Schiap’s existence in Rome and Paris (among acquaintances akin to Dalí, Duchamp, and Picasso), stunned weaves Audrey’s conventional notions of domesticity with Schiaparelli’s frequently outrageous principles right into a marvel-filled, meditation on good looks, and on being a daughter, sister, and mom, whereas demonstrating how a unmarried publication can switch a existence.

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Currently, these changes are held back by interconnected barriers at different levels, from the level of individual identity to societal norms, as we have begun to illustrate in this paper. In particular, persistent workplace assumptions about work and ideal workers reinforce and reproduce gender inequities and prevent reciprocal changes between men and women. The intensification and invasiveness of work in the contemporary global context exacerbates these processes. For this reason, solutions to issues of gender inequity in reconciling paid work and family will not be achieved byattention to the situation in Europe alone.

Note 1. This was the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 'Family 2002' module that has been drawn upon in a number of chapters in this volume. For a description of the ISSP programme, see lowell et a1. (1993). 2 Evolutions and Approaches to Equitable Divisions of Paid Work and Care in Three European Countries: a Multi-level Challenge Richenda Gambles, Suzan Lewis and Rhona Rapoport Despite growing numbers of women in the labour force, and varying national policies and workplace policies developed to support the reconciliation of paid work and family life, progress towards gender equity remains uneven and painfully slow across Europe.

However, the growth in women's employment has been mostly in terms of part-time work (OECD, 2001). , 2003). Workplaces As in the UK, the tendency has been to encourage, rather than legislate for, workplace change. There is much discussion of flexible work arrangements, but policies are most likely to be developed in large organisations, especially in the public sector or where women's labour is needed, and are also more likely to be taken up by women, leaving workplace cultures and structures unchanged (Den Dulk, 2001).

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