A look at advice books for men would surely offer a more cheerful picture, since while women have been moving toward a male norm, some men have moved the other way. But since the traditional male culture that progressive men are challenging is still associated with power and authority, I believe women’s move in the […]

A look at advice books for men would surely offer a more cheerful picture, since while women have been moving toward a male norm, some men have moved the other way. But since the traditional male culture that progressive men are challenging is still associated with power and authority, I believe women’s move in the […]

The commercial spirit of intimate life is woven with a second cultural ten­dency—for women to assimilate to male rules of love. On one hand, cool modern advice books address women. Two-thirds are written by women and all of them address problems women have. Nearly all picture women on the covers. Further, even if authors don’t […]

The commercial spirit of intimate life is woven with a second cultural ten­dency—for women to assimilate to male rules of love. On one hand, cool modern advice books address women. Two-thirds are written by women and all of them address problems women have. Nearly all picture women on the covers. Further, even if authors don’t […]

Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is remi­niscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]

Cool modem advice books reveal a newly unfolding paradox that is remi­niscent of an earlier paradox. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Weber describes a set of beliefs held by a variety of Protestant sects—a belief in ascetic self-control, frugality, hard work, and devotion to a calling. He traces the way in […]

At the other end oi the spectrum we find a moment from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex: Powerful emotional experiences await those who are really living out their own scripts. A Chicago woman in her early forties who still lives with and loves her husband is also intensely involved with a man she works with. […]

At the other end oi the spectrum we find a moment from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex: Powerful emotional experiences await those who are really living out their own scripts. A Chicago woman in her early forties who still lives with and loves her husband is also intensely involved with a man she works with. […]

We can draw one set of magnified moments from Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman (1973), an arch-reactionary traditional book (covertly addressed to modern readers) that is curiously warm. We can draw a very different set from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex (1981), a mod­ern advice book that is curiously cool. From The Total Woman: If […]

We can draw one set of magnified moments from Marabel Morgan’s The Total Woman (1973), an arch-reactionary traditional book (covertly addressed to modern readers) that is curiously warm. We can draw a very different set from Colette Dowling’s The Cinderella Complex (1981), a mod­ern advice book that is curiously cool. From The Total Woman: If […]