Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life [Hardcover]

Laura Schlessinger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 3, 2004

The immediate feedback to Dr. Laura Schlessinger's seventh bestseller, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, affirmed that Dr. Laura helped hundreds of thousands of readers make good marriages even better and saved many from the brink of divorce. Now, due to overwhelming response from her readers and listeners who wanted to know more about the special power women have to transform their husbands, their marriages, and their lives, Dr. Laura has written Woman Power.

Through a series of provocative chapters and Q&As, Dr. Laura guides women on how to assess what is valuable and what is vulnerable in their marriages, and stimulates women to think about what is really important about being a woman, a wife, and a mother. In addition, readers will find inspirational stories and tips, thought-provoking essays, and plenty of room for entries, thoughts, and journals. There are even fascinating Q&As for husbands and wives to do together!

Woman Power is the perfect companion book for the woman who wants to ensure herself -- and her man! -- the marital happiness and satisfaction everyone dreams of.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

According to radio psychologist and provocateur Laura Schlessinger, most unhappy marriages are alike—-and can be changed in just minutes a day. In this companion to Dr Laura's best-selling The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, women are the source of the problem and have the power of the solution. Wives, brainwashed by "feminism" and politically correct psychotherapy, have become dismissive of their husbands, denying them tenderness, pillow talk, admiration, and dinner on the table, says Schlessinger. Her prescription is deceptively simple. A wife must stop defining her power in terms of possessions, position, and independence. Instead, she should remember that "men are simpler in their emotional needs" (they are demoralized by not feeling cared for) and exercise her "awesome power to change her man and her marriage." The payoff? A husband who will "die for us"--and take out the garbage without being asked. Schlessinger coaxes readers in attitude adjustment through an assessment of their marriage and dozens of specific suggestions about compliments, conversation, counting blessings and lacy underwear. She is at her best in asking readers to explore anti-male bias in advertising and Internet jokes. Her tart commentary is interspersed with journal exercises, testimonial transcripts from her radio show, and listener letters. The book's central ideas (devotion robust listening, sensuality) are too often eclipsed by its gender typecasting of both partners and frequent frying of the feminist idea of mutuality in marriage. Both men and women will surely bristle at the book's anachronistic assumptions: for example, a silk teddy manipulates men and nothing spells loving like something from the oven. Dr. Laura's self-promotion and the defense and repetition of her earlier ideas also undermine her message. Still, it must be noted that many of her listeners and readers find Schlessinger's ten-minute marriage manager to be hopeful and helpful. --Barbara Mackoff

From Publishers Weekly

This sister volume to the bestselling The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands argues that by simply using "the niceness of the feminine touch," women "have almost magical powers" to singlehandedly improve their marital relationships. The secret is in implementing the "As"—attention, approval, appreciation and affection—that Dr. Laura outlined in her earlier book, and she relies on reader testimonials and radio show transcripts to show specifically how change worked for her devoted fans. Women "dominate with respect to power in man-woman relationships," she says. Not all readers will agree with her conservative and controversial premise that "most women have been blinded to caring about what their men think, feel, and want," and many may find her message cloaked in feminist-bashing bombast (feminists have "created wussy Frankensteins out of men"). Dr. Laura blames feminism—and denigrates women who have chosen careers—for devaluing "what is truly meaningful (sacrifice, commitment, obligation, morality, loyalty) for immediate gratification and material gain, a bizarre notion of equality of the sexes, and power." She never discusses what men can do to improve a marriage; instead she reiterates why it's the woman's responsibility to change first—"because we have more power to transform our men than they have to transform us." Devoted fans may flock to this book. Some men may also want to read this is slickly written self-help title—and want their wives to read it as well.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (August 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060753234
• ISBN-13: 978-0060753238
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #858,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Laura Schlessinger received her Ph.D. in physiology from Columbia University and holds a post-doctoral certification from the University of Southern California and licensing in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is the author of nine New York Times bestsellers, including THE PROPER CARE AND FEEDING OF MARRIAGE. Her award-winning radio program is internationally syndicated by her Take On The Day company. It's broadcast every day on more than 250 stations, XM Satellite Radio, and the Armed Forces Network, and is stream-linked and podcast on www.drlaura.com.

Customer Reviews

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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Laura is right..., August 13, 2004

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M. L Smith "smithbmt" (Southeast Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life (Hardcover)

As a married man of nine years and having read Dr. Laura's "Proper Care.." and others, I agree with her 100%. My wife operates a small business out of our home and is a very busy woman. She also is the primary care giver to both of our children. Dr. Laura's book helped me to realize that I took her for granted. Likewise, my wife found that she needed to be more affectionate. This book is a must for both men and women. Thank you, Dr. Laura, for strengthening our relationship.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Right-on, Again!, September 5, 2005

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T. Miller "Advoc8" (Smithfield, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life (Hardcover)

Dr. Laura has hands-down followed up "Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" with a first class sequel. It takes guts and wisdom to take on the mutated women's movement. Dr. Laura clearly illustrates just exactly how women really do have much more power over their own lives and over men than the other way around. She demonstrates that it is how they realize and use their power which makes everyone around them miserable or happy - most of all themselves. This is truly THE MOST EQUALITY-BASED BOOK I've read to date. This is what the women's movement was meant to be.

We could have opened history books to learn the same from men or women who've misused power and ended up unhappy or destroyed. But since most never read or learn from history, most are doomed to repeat it, with too many women ending up making themselves miserable by following ancient historical follies promoted by the "modern" women's movement.

Bad advice is so commonly practiced: "Hatred, bad treatment, control, manipulation and abuse of men" is deserved and justified and "will not back fire" on women. Dr. laura illustrates how it works the other way around too, for jerky men. It not only takes someone with real wisdom to illustrate it all like Dr. Laura does so plainly, but someone who can also let-it-fly when the need arises, to protect so many women not only from commonly accepted lies but ultimately from the party most responsible - themselves. Most women I've talked to about this book (who've actually read it all) and it's companion book love them both, and Dr. Laura for writing them.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars repetitive!, September 21, 2004

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currently in love (Logan, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Woman Power: Transform Your Man, Your Marriage, Your Life (Hardcover)

I loved the proper care and feedings of husbands, but this book, is a work book and a journal. I think it is very repetitive if you have read the first book, plus who has time to answer all of these silly questions. I think that because of the sucess of the proper care book that this book was just a quick money maker. Others with more time and others who may need more help may really enjoy this book.