by Nancy Friday · Delta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385320153
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«My Mother/My Self: The Daughter’s Search for Identity» is Nancy Friday’s psychological essay, published by Delta in paperback (448 pages, in English).
In this book, Nancy Friday analyses the mother-daughter relationship through hundreds of interviews and her own experience, with conflicting emotions: love, anger and resentment. The work studies how that bond conditions women’s identity, sexuality and decisions, and the generational legacy that leads them to repeat the maternal model.
20th anniversary edition, published in 1997 with a new introduction by the author; the original work appeared in 1977.
Recommended for readers interested in psychology, feminism and family relationships.
Nancy Colbert Friday was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women's true inner lives, and that openness about women's hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women's and men's benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
