Breaking Point: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives
Much as Gail Sheehy did in Passages, Dr. Beck articulates a common signpost in women's lives, explaining the five stages which characterize how women arrive at their breaking point, how their age defines their experience, and how they can transcend crisis and move on to redefine their lives.
Much as Gail Sheehy did in Passages, Dr. Beck articulates a common signpost in women's lives, explaining the five stages which characterize how women arrive at their breaking point, how their age defines their experience, and how they can transcend crisis and move on to redefine their lives.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780812963755 (081296375X)
Publish date: November 17th 1998
Publisher: Crown
Pages no: 403
Edition language: English
Sociologist and life coach Martha Beck shares her research interviews with hundreds of women, and discusses how they arrived at various life transformations. With her characteristic good humor and sound scientific method, Beck demonstrates how society demands conflicting behaviors of women (traditi...