The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey - Hardcover

Travis, Trysh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807833193 ISBN 13: 9780807833193

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010

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In The Language of the Heart, Trysh Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them. Moving from AA's beginnings in the mid-1930s as a men's fellowship that met in church basements to the thoroughly commercialized addiction treatment centers of today, Travis chronicles the development of recovery and examines its relationship to the broad American tradition of self-help, highlighting the roles that gender, mysticism, and bibliotherapy have played in that development.

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Trysh Travis is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Florida.

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Travis explores the rich cultural history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and its offshoots and the larger "recovery movement" that has grown out of them. She chronicles the development of recovery and examines its relationship to the broad American tradition of self-help, highlighting the roles that gender, mysticism, and print culture have played in that development.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807833193
• ISBN 13: 9780807833193
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 357
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