Women and Self-Help Culture: Reading Between the Lines

by Wendy Simonds

Book Overview

Simonds writes about women's approach to self-help reading. She is most interested in self-help books directed primarily toward women. These books offer advice about managing relationships, enhancing sexuality, developing self-esteem, becoming assertive, and improving our spiritual lives. Simonds looks at hundreds of books, including such well-known ones as Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much, Harold Kushner's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518342
• ISBN13: 9780813518343
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"