what magazines taught me about love, sex, and starting over
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Alter, Cathy
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2008
- Thesaurus
- zelfhulp, liefde, voeding, kleding, seksualiteit, feministische tijdschriften, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Realizing she needed to do serious work on her lifestyle, the author, a recently divorced thirty-seven-year old freelance writer, decided to spend each month of the coming year following the advice of a major women's magazine without question. She picked nine titles focusing on a how-to ethos more or less aligned with her own demographic: Elle, Marie Claire, O, Allure, Self, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, InStyle and Real Simple. Each month she worked on a particular damage zone - diet, social fears, clothes, relationships, cooking, sex, etc. - and followed the advice of her chosen magazine as earnestly as possible. While she ends up feeling positive about the self-improvement her magazine experiment has brought, she knows if she hadn't been ready and willing to change, all the advice in the world wouldn't have helped.