@article{338541,
      recid = {338541},
      author = {Martin, Wednesday.},
      title = {Stepmonster : a new look at why real stepmothers think,  feel, and act the way we do /},
      publisher = {Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,},
      address = {Boston :},
      pages = {326 p. ;},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {A groundbreaking way of understanding the tensions that  define relations between women and their stepchildren. Half  of all women in the United States will live with or marry a  man with children. And what woman with stepchildren has  not--in order to defuse the often overwhelming challenges  of the role--referred to herself as a "stepmonster"?  Wednesday Martin unlocks the emotional mysteries of why  stepmothers think and feel and act the way they do. Martin  draws upon her own experience as a stepmother, interviews  with other stepmothers and stepchildren, and fascinating  insights from literature, anthropology, psychology, and  evolutionary biology to reveal the little-understood  realities of this most demanding role. She illuminates the  harrowing process of becoming a stepmother, considers the  myths and realities, counteracts the cultural notion that  stepmothers are solely responsible for the challenges they  encounter, and considers the emotional and social  challenges men with children face when they remarry.--From  publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/338541},
}