The Language of the Heart

A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey

Trysh Travis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2013 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-0730-6 (ISBN)

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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 commercialised addiction treatment centres 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.

Trysh Travis is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Florida, USA. She helped to found and now edits Points: the Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 233 mm
Gewicht	553 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4696-0730-1 / 1469607301
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-0730-6 / 9781469607306
Zustand	Neuware