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Cargando... My Mother My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity (1977 original; edición 1977)por Nancy Friday
Información de la obraMy Mother, My Self : The Daughter's Search for Identity por Nancy Friday (1977)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. At first I felt like the book was a big blamefest on mom. Everything is mom's fault - our relationships with men, our attitude towards sex, our treatment towards our daughters, the whole inauthentic life which is womanhood. It is obvious that Nancy Friday had real issues with her mom. She admits it and many of her examples come from her own life and upbringing (and sessions with psychiatrists where she tries to hash out why her mom didn't love her). But underneath it all, it is an indictment of societal mores and attitudes that create a family situation which is detrimental to all involved and self-perpetuating. Though the style may come across as harsh and bitter at times, Friday does a good job of analyzing behaviors and attitudes which seem so ingrained in the relations between men and women that we often overlook them. Sometimes the book is out of date, but nevertheless worth reading -- together with Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Terribly outdated. Don't think it has much to say to the younger generation now, for whom all mommies are expected to be "yummy mummies" and be hot and sexy days after giving birth. The Madonna/whore choice seems to have swung in the opposite direction since the time Friday wrote this. Probably was a seminal work (ha ha) at the time, but now it's just not relevant. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence and very selfhood. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Durch offene Selbstauskunft und Hunderte von Interviews untersucht der Freitag ein Generationenvermächtnis und enthüllt die widersprüchlichen Gefühle von Wut, Hass und Liebe, die die Tochter für ihre Mütter empfindet - und warum sie so oft selbst zu dieser Mutter "werden".