by Nancy Friday · FONTANA PRESS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006373377
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In 'My Mother, My Self', Nancy Friday explores the complex relationship between mothers and daughters, analyzing how a woman's identity is shaped by her bond with her mother. Through interviews and in-depth analysis, Friday examines the emotional and psychological patterns that are passed down from generation to generation, offering a revealing perspective on the search for female individuality. This book invites reflection on the maternal influence in women's lives and how to overcome challenges to build one's own authentic identity.
Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
