On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen

On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

451 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction feminism psychology informative reflective medium-paced
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Why do women equate self-denial with being 'good'?We congratulate ourselves when we resist the donut in the office breakroom. We celebrate our restraint when we hold back from sending an email in anger. We put others' needs ahead of our own and be...

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