Can a woman become more powerful without becoming a man?
Yes!
Women who triumph don't follow the rules; they flaunt them.
Harriet Rubin has studied the great female heroes in the wars of intimacy and public life, and distilled their behavior into a plan of action. Whether confronting lovers, mothers, bosses, or competitors, The Princessa is a guide for the woman who feels she deserves far more than she has gotten through compromise. While women have been socialized to avoid conflict, to be peacemakers, caretakers, and nurturers, Rubin shows how those very skills--sensitivity, emotional depth, and selflessness--can be codified into a new strategy of power. The Princessa imparts inspiration and wisdom from history's great divas, poets, saints, sinners, and artists, as well as from leaders of the most important social movements in our time--women who, with the Furies inside them, in a spirit of justice and outrageousness, established their own rules of power.
Just as Machiavelli showed the prince how to use conflict in order to establish control, Rubin shows why women must act more like women. "Think of mothers risking everything to defend their young," writes Rubin. "Think of women overcoming all odds for love." She shows how women, playing by men's rules, have only reinforced their own weakness. So long as the gender wars are waged on male turf, women will always be fighting a losing battle. It's time to win. Whatever your battlefield, The Princessa will incite you to act like a woman, fight like a woman, and live, at last, by your own rules.
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Can a woman's version of The Prince actually work?
There's a sidelong sensibility at work in this post-feminist analog to the Renaissance's great work of strategy. Harriet Rubin urges women to triumph by turning their enemies into allies and their fear into power; by enlarging their sphere rather than defending it; and by learning to best instead of win.
But there's a delicate wryness to the art of balancing tensions to one's advantage. One of the most telling examples is that of Sun Tzu, who bet the emperor he could turn the twelve royal concubines into fierce warriors, but was bested by the concubines, who simply giggled when he barked orders at them. Modern women may find interpreting this a challenge, but an entertaining one.
Harriet Rubin has worked in publishing for twenty years. In 1989 she founded Currency, where she has published the works of leading executives, economists, management gurus, and CEOs. She has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and women's magazines. She lives in New York City.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The philosophy behind this book is simple: settle for nothing but greatness. It is aimed at every woman who feels that she deserves more than she has gained through traditional means of compromise, co-operation, negotiation and nurturing. Rubin, writing as "Machiavella", exhorts women not to be afraid to use conflict, which of all possible relationships is the one women understand the least. Women typically try to avoid conflict, or to cure it as if it were the flu. Yet, conflict is contact; it's a relationship characterized by power. Machiavelli showed the prince how to use conflict in order to establish control. For the Princessa, the goal is not control, it's impact, having a presence of authority. The theme of the book is how to become powerful without becoming a man. Women can't play by the established rules of power in society because they are men's rules. Why do so many people feel that acting "emotionally" is feminine, weak, anti-rational? Why is it that when we call a man a prince, we mean a man among men, a gentleman, but when a woman is called a princess, it denotes a spoilt brat, a prima donna? To become powerful without becoming a man, one has to become more feminine. But feminine is not all soft, says Rubin; feminine is fierce, unyielding. Think of mothers risking everything to defend their young. Think of women overcoming all odds for love. The book shows how women can embrace challenge - not competition but provocation. It also addresses the concept of what Rubin calls "power Anorexia", a condition of imposed self-denial, a preference for powerlessness. "The Princessa" aims to be a manifesto of women's power, drawing on the tactics of historical princessas, such as Joan of Arc, as well as contemporary examples, and on power strategies in today's business world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002998268
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