What Do Women Want - Softcover

Eichenbaum, Luise; Orbach, Susie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425099121 ISBN 13: 9780425099124

Publisher: Berkley, 1987

Synopsis

This collection of compelling portraits and case histories examines the factors that govern what women want in life. Included are sections on achieving independence, the mother-daughter conflict, fear of intimacy, pregnancy, and the importance of female friendships.

About this title

About the Author

Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum are pioneers in the development and practice of feminist psychotherapy. In 1976 they founded the Women's Therapy Centre in London which now provides counselling services for over five hundred women each year. Susie Orbach is the author of Fat is a Feminist Issue I and Fat is a Feminist Issue II, which revolutionized the treatment of compulsive eating in women. Luise Eichenbaum is the author of Outside In... Inside Out, Women's Psychology: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Approach, and Bittersweet: Facing up to Feelings of Love, Envy and Competition in Women's Friendships, also written with Susie Orbach.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425099121
• ISBN 13: 9780425099124
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 1