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ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR - ELISE LOEHNEN GEBUNDEN

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking exploration of the ancient rules women unwittingly
follow in order to be considered good ” revealing how the Seven Deadly Sins still control and
distort our lives and illuminating a path toward a more balanced  spiritually complete way to
live 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 feel virtuous when we wake up at dawn to get a jump on the day. We put
others’ needs ahead of our own and believe this makes us exemplary. In On Our Best Behavior 
journalist Elise Loehnen explains that these impulses—often lauded as unselfish  distinctly
feminine instincts—are actually ingrained in us by a culture that reaps the benefits  via an
extraordinarily effective collection of mores known as the Seven Deadly Sins. Since being
codified by the Christian church in the fourth century  the Seven Deadly Sins—pride  greed 
lust  envy  gluttony  wrath  and sloth—have exerted insidious power. Even today  in our largely
secular  patriarchal society  they continue to circumscribe women’s behavior. For example 
seeing sloth as sinful leads women to deny themselves rest  a fear of gluttony drives them to
ignore their appetites  and an aversion to greed prevents them from negotiating for themselves
and contributes to the 55 percent gender wealth gap. In On Our Best Behavior  Loehnen reveals
how we’ve been programmed to obey the rules represented by these sins and how doing so
qualifies us as good.” This probing analysis of contemporary culture and thoroughly researched
history explains how women have internalized the patriarchy  and how they unwittingly reinforce
it. By sharing her own story and the spiritual wisdom of other traditions  Loehnen shows how we
can break free and discover the integrity and wholeness we seek.

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