When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970's no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality, they must first acknowledge their identity as separate from their mother's. Nancy Friday's book played a major role in that acceptance. The greatest gift a good mother can give remains unquestioning love planted deep in the first year of life, so deep and anassailable that the tiny child grown to womanhood is never held back by the fear of losing that love, no matter what her own choice in love, sexuality, or work may be. Through candid self-disclosure and hundreds of interviews, Friday investigates a generational legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings of anger, hate, and love the daughter's hold for their mothers-and why they so often "become" that mother themselves.
A report on female erotic fantasies is based on the author's interviews and correspondences with other women and offers a frank study of female sexuality and the role of imagination in sex.
La relation mère/fille, si elle est source d'amour, engendre aussi la culpabilité, le mensonge, la colère et même la haine. Sans tabou et avec sincérité, Nancy Friday analyse ce lien complexe et ambigu et nous révèle l'influence déterminante que les mères exercent sur leurs filles, leur estime de soi, leur rapport aux hommes et à la sexualité. Ma mère, mon miroir est un livre indispensable à toute femme qui désire mieux se connaître et retrouver avec sa mère une relation fondée sur la compréhension, le respect et l'indépendance. En proposant des voies pour ne plus souffrir inutilement, Ma mère, mon miroir permettra aux filles devenues adultes de s'épanouir dans leur vie affective et professionnelle.
Analyzes the sexual fantasies of more than one hundred and fifty women to show how women's attitudes have changed towards sex, their partners, and themselves