The language of the heart
Subtitle: a cultural history of the recovery movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
By: Trysh Travis.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780807833193
Subjects: Alcoholics Anonymous -- History; Recovery movement -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS:

Introduction: the sex addict, the dry drunk, and the ubiquitous recovery movement -- The metaphor of disease -- The antidote of surrender -- Reading the language of the heart -- The "feminization" of AA culture -- The varieties of feminist recovery experience -- Oprah Winfrey and the disease of difference -- Afterword : recovery as a "populist" culture -- Appendix A : Alcoholics Anonymous membership -- Appendix B : reprintings and distribution of Alcoholics Anonymous.