For Black Women Only: A Complete Guide to Successful Life-Style Change, Health, Wealth, Love, and Happiness [Paperback]

Dr. Ingrid D. Hicks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1991

A comprehensive lifestyle guide, this book is for every Black woman—single, partnered, or divorced; employed, underemployed, or entrepreneur.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Hicks (psychiatry, Univ. of Wisconsin Medical School) aims this book at contemporary African American women. She uses letters and responses she received from African American women in her practice to illustrate the unique problems they face. The responses are interesting, but are occasionally so long and numerous that they tend to overshadow the advice presented. The end-of-chapter summaries and sections on entrepreneurship and empowerment are good, but the rest of the book seems to serve as a platform for respondents to vent their anger, and for Hicks to extoll the virtues of Afrocentrism. Not a necessary purchase.
- Danna C. Bell-Russel, Marymount Univ. Libs., Arlington, Va.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Dr Ingrid Hicks

Product Details

• Paperback: 101 pages
• Publisher: African American Images; 1st edition (December 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913543241
• ISBN-13: 978-0913543245
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,015,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fore-runner in the self-help genre aimed at black women, October 18, 1999

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Mo Fleming ([e-mail]) (Plainsboro, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Black Women Only: A Complete Guide to Successful Life-Style Change, Health, Wealth, Love, and Happiness (Paperback)

For Black Women Only was one of the earliest books to emerge focusing on specific issues of self-esteem and the African American woman. Through her practice, Dr. Igrid D. Hicks encountered a variety of women with surprisingly similar elements: serious traumas, crisis, and abuses. Dr. Hicks realized that these soul-defeating experiences contributed to a host of ailments including fatigue, depression, and physical illness. In her book, Hicks uses real lives to engage readers, and illustrate how common sense advice and self-awareness helps raise self-esteem and empowers women to achieve personal success and happiness.

While other authors such as Iyanla Vanzant, Grace Cornish and Anita Bunkley have subsequently taken up the banners of personal responsibility, self-esteem and empowerment, For Black Women Only is the grand-mother of self-help books for sisters, and remains a invaluable contribution to a community of women and a literary genre.

4.0 out of 5 stars Rights of passage for the black woman, February 10, 2012

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AfrenuHealth "AfrenuHealth" (Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Black Women Only: A Complete Guide to Successful Life-Style Change, Health, Wealth, Love, and Happiness (Paperback)

I find this book easily digestible and a satisfying read. A concise self help guide to the tribulations that some black women face on a daily basis. This book covers life scenarios such as our personal relationships with lovers, children, women, work, siblings and mostly important ourselves. A special thing about this book is the additional letters by other women explaining their situations and views and perspectives. The author gives a good analysis of the positives and negatives in each setting. In short it's a beautiful simplistic guide to a the rights of passage for the black woman. The only criticism is I wish this book was longer.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cliches and Victims, July 28, 2000

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Ishta Kwan Ruwanda - See all my reviews

This review is from: For Black Women Only: A Complete Guide to Successful Life-Style Change, Health, Wealth, Love, and Happiness (Paperback)

What a tremendous disappointment! Resorting to racial stereotypes isn't doing our people any favors. A helping book directed to ANY individuals, regardless of color, might just help lift us up, but this one rely's on the cliche of being a vistim. That's not empowerment.