Between Women: Love, Envy and Competition in Women's Friendships
by Luise Eichenbaum, Susie Orbach
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When your best friend makes you angry, why can't you tell her? As women pursue professional and personal goals, the support needed from female friends can be undermined by feelings of envy, competition, and anger. In this groundbreaking book, Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach show: * How mother-daughter relationships affect women's desire to forge close adult friendships * How to stop hiding painful feelings and speak up to your friends * How to enhance feelings of autonomy and show more self-development while remaining "connected" to others * Why "daring to differ" with friends can strengthen your value to each other as you strive for individuality Compassionate and insightful, Between Women: Love, Envy, and Competition in Women's Friendships will help you achieve a strong sense of self and enjoy richer and more enduring relationships with your friends. "A touching and lively book. Any woman will find her own story somewhere in these pages." -- The New York Times Book Review "The book's message will ring true for all women." -- New York Woman show lessTags
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An interesting look at women's non-sexual relationships with other women and how women depend on friendships to keep sane. Has some interesting points but does not deal with things like bullying and the like that women sometimes engage in (ask me about my school years and I'll tell you how cruel girls can be) sometimes glosses over issues.
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Susie Orbach is a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre in London and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. She is also a cofounder of the Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. Orbach lives in London with her partner and two children
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 155.633 — Philosophy & psychology Psychology Differential and developmental psychology Adults By Sex Women
- LCC
- HQ1206 .E43 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Dutch, English
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