A Feminist Critique of Self-Help Books on Heterosexual Romance: Read 'Em and Weep

DeFrancisco, Victoria; O'Connor, Penny

doi:10.1080/07491409.1995.11089801

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“…We can therefore say that the family models and love-life covered in these works have more to do with traditional heterosexual lifestyles (Leto De Francisco and O'Connor, 1995) than with a heterogeneous vision of the processes at work (Llopis, 2015). In other words, the books seldom consider the possibility that the readers are single mothers or have less conventional relationships (Goldfeder and Sheff, 2013).…”

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Woman, manage your life! The Life-Work Balance Discourse in Popular Management Literature Aimed at Women*

Medina-Vicent

2019

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Management posts have traditionally been held by men. Consequently, the business management normative model has dictated the rules women should follow. Among other reasons, this is why the issue of work-life balance has been sidelined in popular management literature. In keeping with these male-dictated rules, it was always blithely assumed that the manager's role was exclusively linked with his public presence — in other words, family and care issues were left out of the equation. However, as more and more women have become managers, new issues have shaped the management agenda. In this paper, we study how the issue of work-life balance has been incorporated in popular management literature for women. We are particularly interested in identifying whether the discourse on women’s presence in management enshrines: (1) a transformative, egalitarian vision (requiring policies fostering work-life balance), or (2) a view that sees women’s traditional household roles as something belonging to the private sphere, leaving them disadvantagedand bereft of support as they pursue their management careers.

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Section: Debats • Annual Review 4 • 2019mentioning

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Woman, manage your life! The Life-Work Balance Discourse in Popular Management Literature Aimed at Women*

Medina-Vicent

2019

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“…3. Please see Bellah et al (1996), Ben-Yehuda (1990, Cancian (1987), Cushman (1995), DeFranciso andO'Connor (1995), Ehrenreich andEnglish (1978), Gergen (1991), Grodin (1991), Kaminer (1992), Katz (1993), Lasch (1979Lasch ( , 1984, Payne (1989), Rapping (1996), Riessman and Carroll (1995), Schilling and Fuehrer (1993), Simonds (1992Simonds ( , 1996, and Starker (1989).…”

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Therapeutics of the Self

Dubrofsky

2007

Television & New Media

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The article uses the reality-based television shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette as a lens through which to examine the representation of therapeutic behavior, arguing that a re-articulation of the therapeutic is necessary to understand the coupling of surveillance and the therapeutic on television. The work examines how participants on reality shows, to legitimate themselves under surveillance, must assert what the author terms the “therapeutics of the self,” a pride in displaying a consistent self verified by surveillance. The “therapeutics of the self” builds on the trend observed by scholars studying therapeutic culture in which people are incited to constantly work on, hence change, the self. The author argues that the “therapeutics of the self” promotes as therapeutic the assertion of self-sameness across disparate social spaces (on the shows and in “real” life): stasis. Hence, paradoxically, the unchanged self works to improve—change—the self.

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Performing the enterprising subject: Gendered strategies for success (?)

Nadesan

Trethewey

2000

Text and Performance Quarterly

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A Feminist Critique of Self-Help Books on Heterosexual Romance: Read 'Em and Weep

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Woman, manage your life! The Life-Work Balance Discourse in Popular Management Literature Aimed at Women*

Woman, manage your life! The Life-Work Balance Discourse in Popular Management Literature Aimed at Women*

Therapeutics of the Self

Performing the enterprising subject: Gendered strategies for success (?)

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