The language of the heart : a cultural history of the recovery movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey / Trysh Travis.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.

xvi, 357 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the sex addict, the dry drunk, and the ubiquitous recovery movement -- Pt. 1. Addiction and recovery -- The metaphor of disease -- The antidote of surrender -- Pt. 2. Alcoholics Anonymous and print culture -- Reading the language of the heart -- The "feminization" of AA culture -- Pt. 3. Politics and spirit -- The varieties of feminist recovery experience -- Oprah Winfrey and the disease of difference -- Afterword : recovery as a "populist" culture.