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Drawing on her own and other women's lives, Nancy Friday shows that to a woman's character the key lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality, independence, and very selfhood. Friday believes that on the deepest level women will always be their mother's daughters, and that only when they recognize and understand this will they be able to find their own strength and direct their own lives.
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Nancy Friday grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and has edited a travel magazine, as well as contributing to ‘Cosmopolitan’ and ‘Playboy’. She is married and lives in New York and Key West.
Her other books include ‘Jealousy’, ‘Men In Love’, ‘Women on Top’ and ‘My Secret Garden’.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has changed my views on my relationship with my mother and my view of myself - the title should have told me it might! After this book I am determined that my life WILL be different. A strong believer that your parents, if they love you, just do the best they know how to, I had stuggled with anger and resentment for many years, as depression. Now I can at least understand where my anger comes from, and how it came about. This means I can move on, without the need to blame either myself or my mother. Such a brilliant book. Thank you Nancy!
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wow what a book. I don't normally like books like this but this is really worth reading. Very very insightful and revealing. You'll start off thinking no that doesn't apply to me, I get on fine with my mother, I'm my own person but the more you read the more you realise how our mother's lives and hopes and thoughts have influenced us. How we don't grow up in a vacuum but are conditioned by our upbringing. I realised things I never thought I believed about women's place in society and need to get married. I plan to read this book all over again.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What an insight into the unconscious constraints that keep us acting the way we do in life. Very helpful and useful book. Perhaps Nancy Friday could be persuaded to write a follow up book which is based on the age we live in today. I ask for this because this is a book that I would certainly encourage my daughter to read, but I do however think that it is now becoming a dated book and not so many of the younger women will be able to relate to it enough to stick with it to discover its very important message. It would be very sad if the infomation in this book were lost as the years go by for this reason. Women need this book - so an updated version by somebody if not this author please!.
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Poisonous
Really gets you thinking, the majority of the book that is. Some of the ideas are cliche and stale but there is a lot of thought-provoking stuff which in my view would help to... Read more
Published 9 months ago by alicante123
very interesting but....
...disappointing as the author doesnt have a daughter so not quite sure how she could understand and write about both sides of mother/daughter relationship?
Published on 27 Feb 2010 by moomin mamma
generalised rambling
I found this book very irritating - first of all there is no structure to it and each chapter seems to ramble, repeating thoughts and ideas that have been expressed in previous... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 2009 by Miniver
very pleased
My book arrived quickly and in excellent condition. I am currently reading through it and am finding it interesting, enlightening and very thought provoking. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2009 by Ms. T. F. Palmer
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