The Resource Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir, Wednesday Martin, Ph.D
Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir, Wednesday Martin, Ph.D
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The item Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir, Wednesday Martin, Ph.D represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in T.O.H.P. Burnham Free Library (Essex).
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- Summary
- "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 248 pages
- Contents
-
- Comme il faut
- Playdate pariah
- Going native : Mommy wants a birkin
- Manhattan geisha
- A girls' night in
- A Xanax and a bloody Mary : Manhattan moms on the verge of a nervous breakdown
- A rainy day
- Summary fieldnotes
- Isbn
- 9781476762623
- Label
- Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir
- Title
- Primates of Park Avenue
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Wednesday Martin, Ph.D
- Subject
-
- Interpersonal relations -- New York (State) | New York
- Martin, Wednesday
- Mothers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Mothers -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- Primates -- Behavior -- Miscellanea
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Martin, Wednesday
- Dewey number
- 974.7/1
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F128.68.U63
- LC item number
- M37 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Martin, Wednesday
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Mothers
- Mothers
- Primates
- Interpersonal relations
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Label
- Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir, Wednesday Martin, Ph.D
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Comme il faut -- Playdate pariah -- Going native : Mommy wants a birkin -- Manhattan geisha -- A girls' night in -- A Xanax and a bloody Mary : Manhattan moms on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- A rainy day -- Summary fieldnotes
- Control code
- 1607935
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476762623
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014041481
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1607935
- (OCoLC)904334968
- Label
- Primates of Park Avenue : a memoir, Wednesday Martin, Ph.D
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Comme il faut -- Playdate pariah -- Going native : Mommy wants a birkin -- Manhattan geisha -- A girls' night in -- A Xanax and a bloody Mary : Manhattan moms on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- A rainy day -- Summary fieldnotes
- Control code
- 1607935
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- vii, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9781476762623
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2014041481
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1607935
- (OCoLC)904334968
Subject
- Interpersonal relations -- New York (State) | New York
- Martin, Wednesday
- Mothers -- New York (State) | New York -- Biography
- Mothers -- New York (State) | New York -- Social life and customs
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography
- Upper East Side (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- Primates -- Behavior -- Miscellanea
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
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