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Travis, Trysh.
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Alcoholics Anonymous -- History.
Recovery movement -- History.
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The language of the heart : a cultural history of the recovery movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey / Trysh Travis.
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Travis, Trysh.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
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Alcoholics Anonymous -- History.
Recovery movement -- History.
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9780807833193 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807833193
9781469607306 (pbk.) :
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xvi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : the sex addict, the dry drunk, and the ubiquitous recovery movement -- Pt. 1. Addiction and recovery -- The metaphor of disease -- The antidote of surrender -- Pt. 2. Alcoholics Anonymous and print culture -- Reading the language of the heart -- The "feminization" of AA culture -- Pt. 3. Politics and spirit -- The varieties of feminist recovery experience -- Oprah Winfrey and the disease of difference -- Afterword : recovery as a "populist" culture.
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InThe Language of the HeartTrysh 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 print culture have played in that development. Travis draws on hitherto unexamined materials from AA's archives as well as a variety of popular recovery literatures. Her analysis traces AA's embrace of the concept of addiction as disease, the rise of feminist sobriety discourse and the codependence theories of the 1970s and 80s, and Oprah Winfrey's turn-of-the-millennium popularization of metaphysical healing. What unites these varied cultures of recovery, Travis argues, is their desire to offer spiritual solutions to problems of gender and power. Treating self-help seekers as individuals whose intellectual and aesthetic traditions are worth excavating,The Language of the Heartis the first book to attend to the evolution and variation found within the recovery movement and to treat recovery with the attention to detail that its complexity requires.
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