Women & Self-Help Culture: Reading Between the Lines

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Year: 1992
Pages: 267
Binding Paperback
ISBN 813518342

Product Code: 788159852

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Wendy Simonds (au). Examines what the phenomenon of self-help reading reveals about gender relations in contemporary American culture. She interviews women readers & editors of self-help books, & looks at bestsellers since 1963 -- those offering advice about managing relationships, enhancing sexuality, developing self-esteem, becoming assertive, & improving spiritual life. Drawing on feminist theory & critical cultural studies, she explores the appeal of self-help books & asks what readers are making of them. She includes discussions of readers’ assessments of the meaning & effectiveness of self-help reading, & creators’ views of their work.

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