Nothing surpasses the effectiveness of a metaphor for burning an image into the brain. An excellent way to appeal to a visual generation of self-help readers is to use the concept of an ?inner brat,? to describe the irrational force... Read More

“Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit,” wrote John Stuart Mill. At what price freedom? Theologian Conyers believes a free-thinking society pays by sacrificing its sacred life for social... Read More

The idea that a woman’s romantic feelings might be due more to “biological promptings” than to her swain’s sweet talk is just one of the many observations offered in a book that represents women’s sexuality as a masterful... Read More

It’s the number one health problem in America today, affecting over twenty million people and costing nearly forty-three billion dollars a year to treat. Whether labeled the doldrums, the blues, or bad hair days, depression must be... Read More

Freud’s vision of psychoanalysis as a means of transforming society has failed. Destructive behavior and evil still flourish a century after his theories first attempted to explain, and subsequently modify, neurotic and psychotic... Read More

Over a decade ago, ninety one-year-old Bessie Jarvis, all eighty-six pounds of her, was severely beaten by an aide in a California nursing home. Within six weeks, Jarvis was dead. This book is a result of one woman’s effort to ensure... Read More

Anne Morrow Lindbergh labeled them the “vacationless class.” They’re the wives and mothers stuck with housekeeping duties—averaging a full shift of thirty-five hours or more every week of unpaid household labor to their... Read More

Here’s a book for women of a certain age who know they aren’t just cars whose “end value [is] based on an odometer reading.” Brings and Winter disarmingly and persuasively contend that a woman has the right to be openly and... Read More