Profiles the all-too-common woman of today, one who is self-disparaging and desperate to be perfect, and paints a healthy and reasonable alternative portrait emphasizing self-respect and self-worth

PERFECT WOMEN Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform

Self-Help

DOWLING, COLETTE

Personal Transformation

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Discusses the psychological desire of many women to be taken care of, to have someone else take the responsibility for them, and the need for women to reeducate themselves out of such dependency

THE CINDERELLA COMPLEX - Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Fontana Press

Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform

In this book the author asks, "What happens to women between infancy and maturity that so affects their sense of self?". Women are conditioned, by a world which refuses to recognize the true value of femaleness, into a state of narcissistic posturing - an extreme attention to appearance and being seen. She gradually moves further and further away from her true self and ends up empty and undervalued. The author thinks it is possible for women to stop performing and come to terms with themselves. Her answers will help women confront their hidden fears of inadequacy and the negative drive to perform. The author has written "The Skin Game", "How to Love a Member of the Opposite Sex" and "The Cinderella Complex".

HarperCollins, Publishers

Red Hot Mamas

Women's Health

Harper-collins Publishers

The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Looking back on her own experiences of financial distress, the author of The Cinderella Complex examines women's fear that financial security will lead to their isolation from others, due to a lifetime of social conditioning. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Security

Business & Money

Finance

Little,Brown & Co

Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger? These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to appear weak in order to seem more "feminine." The Frailty Myth presents new evidence that girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, their strength and aerobic powers have started to decline unless the girls are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. By sixteen, they have already lost bone density and turned themselves into prime candidates for osteoporosis. They have also been deprived of motor stimulation that is essential for brain growth. Yet as breakthroughs among elite women athletes grow more and more astounding, it begins to appear that strength and physical skill--for all women--is only a matter of learning and training. Men don't have a monopoly on physical prowess; when women and men are matched in size and level of training, the strength gap closes. In some areas, women are actually equipped to outperform men, due partly to differences in body structure, and partly to the newly discovered strengthening benefits of estrogen. Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physi-ology, and endocrinology, Dowling presents an astonishing picture of the new physical woman. And she creates a powerful argument that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.

The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality

Women's Studies

Random House]

Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger? These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex, raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety. It is Dowling's controversial thesis that women succumb to societal pressures to appear weak in order to seem more "feminine." The Frailty Myth presents new evidence that girls are weaned from the use of their bodies even before they begin school. By adolescence, their strength and aerobic powers have started to decline unless the girls are exercising vigorously--and most aren't. By sixteen, they have already lost bone density and turned themselves into prime candidates for osteoporosis. They have also been deprived of motor stimulation that is essential for brain growth. Yet as breakthroughs among elite women athletes grow more and more astounding, it begins to appear that strength and physical skill--for all women--is only a matter of learning and training. Men don't have a monopoly on physical prowess; when women and men are matched in size and level of training, the strength gap closes. In some areas, women are actually equipped to outperform men, due partly to differences in body structure, and partly to the newly discovered strengthening benefits of estrogen. Drawing on extensive research in motor development, performance assessment, sports physi-ology, and endocrinology, Dowling presents an astonishing picture of the new physical woman. And she creates a powerful argument that true equality isn't possible until women learn how to stand up for themselves--physically.

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Random House Publishing Group

The stories of dozens of middle-aged women addresses such topics as redefined family responsibilities, career changes, menopause, intimate relationships, face-lifts, and remarriage.

Bantam]

"A down-to-earth, hopeful, useful--and, from the point of view of this 'recovered' depressive--accurate account of how to treat depression."--Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes. Colette Dowling watched depression destroy her husband's life and leap to the next generation to nearly destroy her daughter's--until dramatic help was found. Now her ground-breaking book offer the same lifesaving help to the millions who still suffer depression and related disorders--which include panic, anxiety, phobias, PMS, alcohol and drug abuse, bulimia, migraine, and obesity. You Mean I Don't Have To Feel This Way? documents the latest research that links depression and related disorders to a physical cause and shows why willpower, understanding, and psychotherapy so often fail to work. It explains the state-of-the-art medical treatments that can bring about dramatic improvement--and often full recovery--within weeks. This important book includes: startling new links between eating disorders, addiction, and depression. How to recognize the symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders. Vital information about new treatments for depressed children and adolescents. A guide to breakthrough drugs for treating mood, anxiety, and eating disorders. The newest research on the use of antidepressants to prevent substance-abuse relapse. How to find expert help and evaluate the treatment you are given. Upbeat, filled with hope and warmth, Colette Dowling's book will change minds and save lives.

You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction

Parenting & Relationships

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PERFECT WOMEN Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform

THE CINDERELLA COMPLEX - Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform

Red Hot Mamas

The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence

Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Security

The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Red Hot Mamas

You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction