My Mother Myself
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When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s 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 mothers. Nancy Fridays 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 daughters hold for their mothersand why they so often become that mother themselves. When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s 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 mothers. Nancy Fridays 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 daughters hold for their mothersand why they so often become that mother themselves.
