Her Fathers Daughter (P)

by Mary E. Loomis

Book Overview

Mary Loomis uncovers the inner price daughters pay in over-relating to their fathers and, in their attempts to live up to masculine expectations and definitions of success. She shows women how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933029888
• ISBN13: 9780933029880
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Woman Understanding the Man's World

This book was recommended to me, and I am passing on the favour by recommending it to others. The book can help a woman understand her subordinate position at work or at home and yet can help a man understand the frustration and anger a woman would feel working in a patriarchal society. By taking the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," Mary Loomis explains the way a woman must reject her inner sense in insecurity and of being second best. While all of this sounds decidedly feminist, the book is one of the simplest explanations of the dynamics of women working in large corporations, government institutions, and other hierarchically organized social networks. There is no male bashing at all, but, instead, a discussion of how a woman's nature is at odds with a patriarchal society. In fact, the book tells of how much of a relief for men understanding all of this can be. In the end, the book talks of how women, not men, need to change.

A MUST READ for all workaholic-perfectionist business women!

This book is a quick read and it helped me to discover my true self, and with that discovery came an incredible depth of understanding!!! I am still amazed at how much a learned in this book. In this day-n-age, knowledge is power for the professional woman. Mary Loomis gives you the self-enlightenment you need to use that power of understanding to make life more fulfilling and prosperous. No longer do my idiosyncrasies or weaknesses destroy my self-image and have subsequent ill effects on my self-confidence. I have a very minor interest in Jungian philosophy for women, and I found this book was a nice compliment to the classic wildish woman mythos collection in "Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. But with Loomis' "Her Father's Daughter", I know I have found the only secret of my success that will not come from within.Similar to the reference books that serve as my essential tools in the software development field, this book hasn't been far from reach since it arrived in the mail 6 months ago. I read it cover to cover twice in the first week that I had it, and it has since grown into its current massively-highlighted and dog-eared state. Thank you Mary Loomis.