Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness

by Ariel Gore

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Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentieth century psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on 'positive psychology' - the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued by this subject when she discovered that Positive Psychology was the most popular course on the Harvard campus. As she read deeper into the topic, she noticed something disturbing: everyone in this happy land was a man. Worse still, some of these new 'experts' seemed hell-bent on proving that women with traditional values and breadwinning husbands - those who had made 'an effort...Read more
  • ISBN10 1429936061
  • ISBN13 9781429936064
  • Publish Date 15 February 2010 (first published 28 January 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Format eBook
  • Language English