1997/09/01 by Martha McMahon, Verta Taylor · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Gender, Feminism, and Media
paper · doi:10.2307/2655636
openalex publication_date 1997/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses interviews and personal letters, talk show transcripts, organizational newsletters and a survey of postpartum group leaders to illuminate conflicts played out in the arena of women's self-help.