The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America

by Dana Becker

Book Overview

The Myth of Empowerment surveys the ways in which women have been represented and influenced by the rapidly growing therapeutic culture--both popular and professional--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The middle-class woman concerned about her health and her ability to care for others in an uncertain world is not as different from her late nineteenth-century white middle-class predecessors as we might imagine. In the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814799361
• ISBN13: 9780814799369
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"