Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back

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Summary: A rich and rewarding book
Review: Dense and brilliant, Pillar of Salt will be important not only for therapists, but for anyone interested in feminism, cultural history, or storytelling. It's full of stories--from fairy tales, scientific discourse, personal anecdotes, fiction, and film--that illustrate its many insights. Haaken stresses the ways that women have had to dramatize their suffering, because the ordinary misery of life under patriarchy (poverty, neglect, and so on) is not taken seriously enough.