Women Who Love Too Much

Women Who Love Too Much is a self-help book by Robin Norwood published in 1985.

The book, was a number one seller on the New York Times Best Seller list's "advice and miscellaneous" category in 1987,[1] is credited with "spawn[ing] a cottage industry in the therapy community."[2] Its premise, that women who get "mired in obsessive relationships"[3] are to help themselves, was criticized by some feminist scholars.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "Best Sellers From 1987's Book Crop"(retrieved 14 October 2009)
  2. ^ Melinkoff, Ellen (1986-12-15). "Helping Women Who Love Too Much". Los Angeles Times (SD_C14). 
  3. ^ Kavesh, Laura (1985-07-23). "Women who 'love too much' are often loved the least". Chicago Tribune (A7). http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/744774492.html?dids=744774492:744774492&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+23%2C+1985&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Women+who+%27love+too+much%27+are+often+loved+the+least&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 
  4. ^ Schrager, Cynthia D. (1993). "Questioning the Promise of Self-Help: A Reading of "Women Who Love Too Much"". Feminist Studies 19 (1): 177–92. JSTOR 3178359.