Money, A Memoir

Women, Emotions, and Cash

Author: Liz Perle
ISBN: 9780805077124

A bold and personal book that digs below the surface of one of society's last taboos--money--and illuminates how women's emotional relationship with it affects every part of their lives Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle made a quiet contract with cash: she would do what it took to get it--work hard, marry right--but she didn't want to have to think about it too much. The subject of money had, since childhood, been quietly sidestepped, a shadowy factor whose private influence was impolite to discuss. This deliberate denial eventually exacted its price, however, when a sudden divorce left Perle with no home, no job, and a four-year-old with a box of toys. She realized she could no longer afford to leave her murky and fraught relationship with money unexamined. What Perle discovered as she reassembled her life was that almost every woman she knew also subscribed to this strange and emotional code of discretion--even though it laced through their relationships with thei

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 2006-01-24

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General, Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Personal Finance)