Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #496128 in Books
• Published on: 1988-01-02
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

Must read for all women
This book, though written in 1980, still applies to every woman I know. We all suffer from The Cinderella Complex. Most women never change since they do not recognize the problem. Read this book so you will understand WHY you do the things you do. It really explains a great deal about why women are the way the are. We will never acheive truly equality with men until we understand ourselves. I highly recommend this book and plan on buying many copies of it to give to friends and family.

Wonderful, forceful prose
I have never forgotten reading this book when it first came out and now, at age 60, am ordering a copy so I can read it again. The book has wonderful, forceful prose designed to wake people up by shocking them into awareness. I still recall a passage that, if I remember close to correctly, accused males/the patriarchy of forcing women into silence like Chinese footbinding practices--something like that although this might not be fully accurate. Or perhaps it had to do with bending women out of shape by not allowing them to explore like men, etc. What inspires me to re-order it? Rage at dealing with still male-dominated chauvanistic churches in my home town in the South which I returned to from the North in order to assist my aging WWII vet father. To his credit, he urged me to go North at a young age to escape the Chauvanism. BRAVO, Dad! (But even YOU could have improved--ha! ha!)

If you feel you need to find out how to become fully independent
Colette really knows what she is on about. If you feel a little uncertain about whether you are independent and mature enough to stay independent and mature enough not to become somebodies little helpless-must-be-cared-for little girl, you can't live without this "old" classic.
Don't just go for getting a life, get your own life.
Any mann should read this book too.

A 52 year young mann who read it with great interest. It makes a great and inexpensive gift for your niece or nephew, son, daughter, friend, etc.