My Mother, Myself
By (Author) Nancy Friday
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
3rd March 1994
12th March 2010
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
Relationships and families: advice and issues
306.8743
Paperback
464
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
309g
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.
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.