My Mother/my Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity
- ISBN-10
- 0440156645
- ISBN-13
- 9780440156642
- Category
- Psychology / General
- Pages
- 475
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Dell
- Author
- Nancy Friday
Description
Dell celebrates the l0th anniversary of this groundbreaking bestseller (3 million now in print) just in time for Mother's Day. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a landmark study", My Mother/My Self explores a daughter's search for her own identity.
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