Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to be Wanted
- ISBN-10
- 060960371X
- ISBN-13
- 9780609603710
- Category
- Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harmony Books
- Author
- Polly Young-Eisendrath
Description
An internationally recognized Jungian analyst and psychologist helps women reclaim true desire for themselves. Not since Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has female desire been explored so deeply and provocatively.
This groundbreaking book delves into the complex world of female desire where women simply "want to be wanted." Many women encourage others to identify or validate images that give them feelings of worth or vitality and then feel resentful because they have sacrificed their real needs and desires. Instead of knowing who they really are and what they would like to do with their lives, they become trapped in their images. As a result, self-direction, self-confidence, and self-determination are undermined from adolescence through old age.
Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath examines this damaging syndrome of female development, showing women, and girls, how to untangle themselves from the web of reflected images that confuses or conceals their authentic wants and needs. Women and Desire empowers women to understand and take control of their sexual, social, and spiritual lives.
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