What Do Women Want? - Softcover

Eichenbaum, Luise; Orbach, Susie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007330251 ISBN 13: 9780007330256

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009

Synopsis

‘This book highlights the fact that women are brought up to understand men’s emotional needs but men are not brought up to understand women’s.’ Woman

Many women today feel that they pour love, commitment and understanding into their relationships, but that it is not returned in kind. He seems secure and independent, she feels insecure and clingy.

The truth is that men and women are both dependent. But his needs are catered to so well – first by his mother, then by his girlfriend or wife – that he doesn’t know he has them, while her needs for closeness and tenderness are constantly rebuffed as he retreats from intimacy.

Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum set out to explore this crisis in the relationships of men and women. They explain how men have learned to ‘manage’ their dependency needs very differently to women, and why women feel dependent and hungry for love. Finally they show why dependency on both sides is the essential core of any successful relationship.

About this title

About the Author

Luise Eichenbaum and Susie Orbach are also co-authors of Understanding Women and Between Women. Susie Orbach is the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies. They are the founders of The Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York and conveners of endangeredbodies.org.

Review

'The old bargain has been shattered. Women want more than a man who makes a good living: they want a man who provides warmth and commitment.' VOGUE 'It's a question most women and many men have struggled with... this book comes up with the best answer so far.' WOMAN

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007330251
• ISBN 13: 9780007330256
• Binding: Print on Demand (Paperback)
• Number of pages: 224