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Gebundene Ausgabe: 379 Seiten
Verlag: Little, Brown & Company; Auflage: 1st Edition (Januar 1992)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0316812404
ISBN-13: 978-0316812405
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,7 x 3,3 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 787.350 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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In the wake of such feminist calls-to-arms as Susan Faludi's Backlash (p. 1133), Paula Kamen's Feminist Fatale (p. 1137), and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth (p. 389), Steinem's inwardly turned examination of how men and women sabotage themselves by suppressing the ``child within'' appears decidedly retro. Nevertheless, her reflections on her own and others' spiritual struggles may give a new generation of activists pause for further reflection. In the wake of Ms. magazine's sale and her own resignation as its editor, Steinem found herself, she says, with the time and inspiration to write a book she'd had in mind for years--a study of the psychological and societal factors that negatively influence self-esteem. The result, she tells us, was a heavily footnoted, scholarly report whose reliance on experts' opinions revealed Steinem's own deep lack of confidence, and inspired her to toss away her original manuscript and come out of the closet herself. Recounting her own early life as the daughter of a factory worker who divorced his mentally ill wife when Gloria was only ten, Steinem details the natural progression from a co-dependent relationship with her mother to an unconscious adult sense of being ``co-dependent with the world.'' Forced by her need to wall off her past, she led a life of outer-world confrontations until, through therapy undertaken as research for her book, she began to master her ``inner child.'' By including others' tales of self- actualization through a ``revolution from within''--the creation of a winning chess team in Spanish Harlem, the transformation of a housewife into an entrepreneur, etc.--Steinem illustrates how others' psychic journeys may lead in much different directions than her own. Still, much of what is recommended here will strike many as old hat--and, in the end, more interesting as an update on the feminist's life than as a practical aid to others. A piquant counterpoint to recently revitalized, outer-directed feminist fashion. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Library Journal

One of the founding mothers of contemporary feminism has written a self-help book that utterly transcends the genre. In lucid prose that is by turns brave and funny and tender, Steinem takes us on a journey of circles and spirals because, as she says, "If we think of ourselves as circles, our goal is completion . . . if we think of work structures as circles . . . progress means mutual support and connectedness." Drawing from sources that range from Margaret Mead to Chief Seattle (Sealth), from Alice Walker to the Upanishads, as well as from her own life and the lives of her friends and colleagues, she provides a series of pathways to self-esteem. Steinem's book unfolds like a flower: it offers literature, art, nature, meditation, and connectedness as ways of finding and exploring the self. Her message is that it is our very selves that we need to trust, despite educational and societal pressures that may denigrate the female experience. Her focus is women, but she is clear that what she has to say is for men, too, and she is neither strident nor dismissive. Recommended for all collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/91.
- GraceAnne A. DeCandido, "School Library Journal"
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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I really really want to give this a higher rating ... 17. Juli 2000

Von A.J. Chodan

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... but I just *can't* do it.

Most of the book, I loved, orat least enjoyed.

However, there's a problem with it. Like manyfeminists, Steinem has been suckered into believing in the vast underground world-wide conspiracy of Satan-worshippers doing unspeakable things to children who don't remember any of it for the next 15 years ....

That bothers me. Having such an influential voice of modern feminism put her weight behind a movement that does more to make working mothers feel guilty about sending their children to daycare than it actually does to empower ANYone, in support of a phenomenon that any rational person can see does not exist, is a tragic waste of talent.

If you can manage to tune out that aspect, enjoy the book...

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LASTING IMPACT 17. Juni 2000

Von Long Island, East, member

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I read this book several years ago and still refer to mattersamong its pages. It is not shocking to see that some [people still] "don't get it." His-story is filled with suchexamples. Ms. Steinem has lightly addressed some.

If you are looking of a female booster shot, this is the right message for you. Who are we as sisters? This book makes a great introduction.

Power to you, Gloria Steinem! Thank you for the shot in the arm.

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A BOOK OF SELF-ESTEEM? 26. August 1999

Von Ein Kunde

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This book is Ms. Steinem's psychological autobiography. She certainly is a very intelligent and independent thinker but certain things, it seems, remain impossible for her to comprehend. When she writes, "marriage is like a little death" you immediately sense you are in the hands of a radical feminist. You can see your way clear to supporting her support of fat women(even though doctors tell us this not healthy) and lesbians, perhaps, but at certain point it becomes clear she is more anarchist than thoughtful intellectual. When she say: "overthrow the whole f...ing. patriarchy" you want to step back and think about what road she is actually taking you, the reader, down. The book is about self-esteem(something force fed to young black males in the 60's just before their rate of incarceration shot from near 0 to 50%) but does she really know what she means. Would she have us say to our children, "you are the product of a little death" to build their self-esteem? Or is she thinking of her perfect world in which there is no marriage? She fully reveals her extremely sad and unhappy childhood but nevertheless seems to have learned so little from it. If fact, men and women created each other through the forces of evolution for compatibility but she insists on ignoring this basic biology in favor of her own personal politics which seems little more than an extension of the disappointment she suffered at her father's hand. There are many books like: His Needs,Her Needs and The 91% Factor:Why Women Initiate 91% Of Divorce, which treat men and women as equal, and fundamentally compatible. They proceed on the safe, intellectually supportable, and civilized assumption that peace and love between the sexes is prefered to Ms. Steinem's constant battle of the sexes which seemingly can never be won.

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