Virginia Beane Rutter

We should all celebrate our daughters in all stages of their lives, and this book tells us this over and over. It gives examples of customs done in other cultures to celebrate a girl's first menstrual bleeding, for example, and urges us (Western moms and dads) to do something similar. While I don't disagree with the books intentions, I felt that almost everything in it could have been said in a 20 page pamphlet. I tried to picture who the target audience is for this book, and I think it may show more be useful, on an elementary level, to some single fathers if they really are clueless as to how to support their daughters' spirit. show less

Jungian analyst considers the ways that women benefit from female therapists. Read for college so not rating.

Oh, because I don't care anymore. And my own female support network is nil. Book as surrogate.