{"id":279,"date":"2010-01-19T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.arielgore.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-05-11T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T23:07:04","slug":"feminist-review-on-bluebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Review on Bluebird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: rgb(20, 2, 1);  line-height: 20px; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">This short but meaningful book is a smart combination of self-help, memoir, and academic study. Gore does not surmise a remedy for the blues, she does not use her life as an anecdote to overcome defeat or as a guiding light toward beatitude, nor does she use statistics and theory to expose her education. Instead,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374114897?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=feminrevie-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0374114897\" style=\"color: rgb(229, 103, 23); text-decoration: none; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00c2\u00a0is a collection of wise womanhood, the crannies of optimism that are too often ignored.<\/p>\n<p>With eloquent emotional pacing, Gore forms a convincing argument that happiness, particularly among women, has been historically understudied and oversimplified in her academic field. She asks, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How is it that psychology\u00e2\u20ac\u201d once envisioned as a great healing art\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas gotten to this place where our neuroses are considered so much more valid than our resiliences?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Gore bravely takes on the secret of joy by combining her personal memoirs with history, science, and first person accounts of real women experiencing real happiness. Her words have the contagious effect of positivism without the obnoxious, evangelistic ethos found so often in the self-help aisle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/feministreview.blogspot.com\/\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: small;\">read more&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short but meaningful book is a smart combination of self-help, memoir, and academic study. Gore does not surmise a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/?p=279\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rjA3-4v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielgore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}