Women Who Love Too Much

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Women Who Love Too Much is a self-help book by licensed marriage and family therapist Robin Norwood published in 1985.

The book, which 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 . p. SD_C14.
  3. Kavesh, Laura (1985-07-23). "Women who 'love too much' are often loved the least". Chicago Tribune . p. A7. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. 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. doi:10.2307/3178359. hdl: 2027/spo.0499697.0019.111 . JSTOR   3178359.