Women Reading Self-Help

This essay examines women's use of psychological self-help books in the context of everyday life. The meaning readers assign to self-help is described in terms of larger struggles in contemporary culture related to autonomy and connection. Readers engage self-help in active and empowering ways, building on women's tradition of managing life amidst discontinuity. Women's disappointments with the genre reflect yearnings that self-help does not adequately address

Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Connection (principal bundle · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Everyday life · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Political science · Psychotherapist · Reading (process · Self · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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