Femininity and Shame

Download or read book Femininity and Shame written by Barbara L. Eurich-Rascoe and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Femininity is a source of shame for some men and women. Scholarship and therapeutic practice have not reckoned with femininity of its shamefulness in helpful, healing ways. Thus, women and men continue to hide their 'feminine' selves. This book asserts the positive worth and power of femininity for men and women; men's and women's need for validation of their femininity; and the need to create child-rearing and therapeutic practices that achieve incorporation of femininity in men's conscious self-understanding.