From front page: An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders. Phyllis Chesler

The Hungry Self: Women, Eating, Identity

Politics & Social Sciences

KIM CHERNIN

Social Sciences

Perennial Library

Two women--one a European feminist, the other a licentious American--debate modern female sexuality, exploring the possibility of women inventing a sexuality of their own

Sex and Other Sacred Games: Love, Desire, Passion, and Possession

Renate Stendhal

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

Physical description; xvi,234p,[16]p of plates : ill, ports ; 25cm. Subjects; Bartoli, Cecilia. Mezzo-sopranos - Biography. Singers - Italy - Biography.

Cecilia Bartoli

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

London : Women's Press

Chernin takes us inside the mind of the psychoanalyst & her patients as few other books have done. In an almost novelistic fashion, she recalls her own analysis with three very different analysts (1967-71, 1972-83, & 1984-92) & how she grew as an individual through her work with them. It is a rare act of self-disclosure that is both moving & revelatory. A moving, provocative, & eminently readable book that raises crucial questions for those concerned with psychoanalysis & self-knowledge. A compelling recounting of the rewards & shortcomings of psychoanalysis . . . rich with discovery.

Different Kind of Listening: My Psychoanalysis and Its Shadow

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Harper-perennial

Sex and Other Sacred Games is an imaginative look at sexuality, in which a chance encounter in a Paris cafe sets off a parley, a heated discussion, an on-going dialogue, between a feminist and a femme fatale. While following the development of their relationship, the book explores all facets of passion, eroticism, and pleasure. Together, they consider the possibility of women redefining desire. The book consistently raises essential issues regarding our traditional views of sex. The two women challenge us to reconsider the meaning and making of love. They invite us to the sacred game, where sexual identity, pleasure and desire can all be re-discovered or invented from scratch.

Sex and Other Sacred Games

United States

Times Books

Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler"Every woman will understand the problem of "The Hungry Self" --the hunger that is expressed through food but that covers our deepest need to realize a fully developed and autonomous self, a self that can satisfy the authentic hungers within us."--Lillian B. RubinA

The Hungry Self

Virago Press Ltd.

Kim Chernin, author of The Hungry Self and In My Mother's House, has already written extensively about her own mother. She has also collected countless mother stories--stories that have the force of myth that are told by women about their mothers. In this intriguing book, Chernin asserts that in order for daughters to become complete individuals, they must, in some sense, psychically "birth" their own mothers. In explaining this provocative theory, she presents characteristic elements of the mother story, including idealization, blame, guilt, forgiveness, and letting go ("giving birth"). She then challenges the reader to trace these elements and identify the themes in six "real but invented" portraits of women and their mothers. During this moving and sometimes confusing process, readers will eventually come to a new level of understanding about the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship--leaving any candy-coated, romanticized vision far behind. The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother--beautifully written and often painful to read--generates more questions about mothers and daughters than it answers, but you'll never look at a mother-daughter story in the same way again.

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother: Seven Stages of Change in Women's Lives

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Viking/Penguin

The Girl Who Went and Saw and Came Back

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Edgework Books

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