Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society. This item is unavailable.Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society

Defines the Female System as an emerging reality--a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens.

Drawing on clinical practice and group workshops, Anne Wilson Schaef contrasts this perspective with the pervasive White Male System and its myths of innate superiority. The book details how women navigate assigned inferiority, compete for male approval, and unlearn deep-seated cultural conditioning.

Schaef examines everyday mechanisms of control, from conversational stoppers to systems that dismiss intuitive thought. These chapters outline alternative approaches to power, ethics, and relationships, showing how women reclaim their own perceptions.

Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson.

• Feminist Theory: Schaef compares the dominant social structure to pervasive air pollution, illustrating how cultural assumptions go unnoticed until people step outside them into non-polluted environments.
• Gender Dynamics: The text deconstructs relationships where one partner develops an amoeba-like pseudopodic ego, devouring a companion's boundaries and treating shared possessions as entirely his own.
• Women's Psychology: Clinical observations reveal how women physically shield the solar plexus, exploring the internal void or cavern created when self-worth depends on outside validation.
• Cultural Criticism: The analysis exposes the cultural obsession with rigid clock time and quantitative measurement, contrasting linear calculation with holistic, process-oriented awareness.

Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D., is the bestselling author of Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much, Women's Reality, and Co-Dependence, among others. Schaef specializes in work with women's issues and addictions and has developed her own approach to healing which she calls Living in Process. Her focus now is helping people, societies, and the planet make a paradigm shift.