The Culture of Recovery: Making Sense of the Self-Help Movement in Women's Lives

by Elayne Rapping

Book Overview

A thoughtful exploration of the recovery movement and its impact on contemporary life--from talk shows and self-help books to Clinton's presidential campaign.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807027170
• ISBN13: 9780807027172
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wow! What an eye opener!

Elayne Rapping saw the light during the sixties, thanks to the feminist movement and consciousness raising groups of that time. Back then, the general unhappiness that women felt was named and attributed to existing cultural values, and social/political causes. This discovery spawned a lot of activism in the areas of feminism. But today, the very same malaise felt by women (the same malaise that is soothed by one addictive behavior or another) is being identified as a "disease symptom" over which we are powerless?!!! This belief system results in no activism whatsoever. What gives?? Elayne tackles this very important question in a book that will remain one of the most important ones in my "12-Step Movement as Peculiar Historical Phenomenon" collection.