| Description |
551 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Animal Within: The Female of the Species -- 2. Indirect Aggression Among Girls and Teenagers -- 3. Woman's Sexism -- 4. The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Fairy Tale, Myth, and Greek Tragedy -- 5. Some Psychoanalytic Views of the Mother-Daughter Relationship -- 6. The "Good Enough" Mother and Her Persecution of the "Good Enough" Daughter -- 7. Sisters and the Search for Best Friends -- 8. Women in the Workplace -- 9. Women in Groups -- 10. Psychological Ethics |
| Summary |
"We are all familiar with the phrase, "Man's Inhumanity to Man." Until now, a profound silence has prevailed about woman's inhumanity to woman. This book breaks that silence. While women may not act aggressively in the same way that men do, studies confirm that girls and women are aggressive, often in "indirect" ways, and mainly toward each other. They judge each other harshly, in life and on juries, hold grudges, gossip about, exclude and disconnect from other women. Women envy and compete against each other, not against men. Many women also hold sexist beliefs. Women tend to deny that this is true, even to themselves. Since women depend upon each other for emotional intimacy and bonding, the power to form cliques and to shun each other functions to enforce female conformity and to discourage female independence and psychological growth."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Women |
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Psychology |
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Feminism |
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Aggressive behaviour |
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Mothers |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Authorized paperback reprint published in 2003 in New York by Plume, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-536) and index |
| Subject |
Prejudices.
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Women -- Relations with women.
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Women.
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Sex role.
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Women -- Psychological aspects.
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Female friendship -- Psychological aspects.
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Mothers and daughters.
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Women -- Psychology.
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Feminism.
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Interpersonal conflict.
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Self-perception in women.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Sexism.
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Social Behavior.
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Interpersonal Relations.
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Women -- psychology.
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Conflict (Psychology)
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Prejudice.
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| LC no. |
2001097337 |
| ISBN |
1560253517 |
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0452284082 paperback |
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