Mother daughter revolution

from betrayal to power

Author: Elizabeth Debold
Secondary Author: Marie C. Wilson
ISBN: 0201632772

Here, at last, is the groundbreaking blueprint for creating powerful relationships between mothers and daughters. History-making research has determined that adolescence is a time of crisis for girls in this country, triggering a dramatic decline of self-esteem, abandoned potential, problems with body image and sexuality, and loss of academic confidence. Beginning at ages nine and ten, our daughters are being silenced by cultural messages that ask them to become less of who they are and more of who society expects "good girls" to be in order to "fit in". For generations, women have unwittingly betrayed those they were trying to protect - their daughters - as they have handed down the same self-negating skills they themselves were taught to get along in our patriarchal society. In doing so, mothers were being asked to bear society's messages - messages they don't agree with themselves. How many women have tried to give their daughters loving advice, only to find they sound exactly like

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub.
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Psychology / General, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood

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