Celebrate-your-womanhood Therapy

Karen Katafiasz

Illustrated by R. W. Alley

Abbey Press

Foreword

In a study not long ago, girls said that being a boy would make their lives better; boys had contempt for the idea of being a girl. Centuries of cultural attitudes devaluing women have left their legacy. Many women continue to feel a vague emptiness within, a doubt that they are fully adequate and acceptable.

Through history, women’s “place” has usually been clearly defined, with certain roles reserved for males. Women who challenged the restrictions often found success by being as much like men as possible. To think or act “like a man” was considered high praise.

But women realized that shattering old constraints under these terms required them to abandon something of incomparable value: the richness of their own life experiences and ways of being.