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I've read both Nancy Friday's "My mother myself" and this book, Nancy Friday is clearly an angry woman... :) Judith Arcana is not. I've always been impressed with "the Woman's press" They do good books, but I digress...

Having read both, this one is far more humanistic, it doesn't seek to blame, if anything it asks you to see your mother as a woman of her time, who did the best with what she had. I read my mother's copies, she had a difficult relationship with her mother, that never really got better until she forgave her, and then my grandma got Alzhiemers disease, and in her lucid moments she and my mother talked, and came to some kind of peace.

From a bloke perspective this book is far scarier, especially pages 92/3 It made an impression. Nancy Friday however seem to want somebody to blame for who she is, if you do too, read her book. If you want to understand your mother read this one.

I read these, and many more besides, trying to understand women, then I gave up, reasoning that if women don't know what they want how the hell am I, a mere man, supposed to know... :)

For the men in the audience, there is also "Our Mother's sons" by the same author, though I've not read it.

I guess we all need to learn to forgive our parents, this book is a good start.