My Mother, Myself (Paperback, Reissue)

• Why are women the way they are?
• Why, despite everything, do we find so much of ourselves mysterious?
• Where do the dependence, the longing for intimacy, the passivity come from?

Drawing on her own and other women's lives, Nancy Friday shows compellingly that the key lies in a woman's relationship with her mother – that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of our adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain our sexuality, our independence, our very selfhood. She believes that on the deepest level we will always be our mothers' daughters, and that only when we recognise and understand this will we be able to find our own strength and direct our own lives.

'Brilliant. Courageous. Moving.'
WASHINGTON POST

'An exhaustive examination'
COMPANY