The Cinderella Test: Would You Really Want the Shoe to Fit? - Subtle Ways Women Are Seduced and Socialized into Servitude and Stereotypes (Hardcover)

A leading psychologist looks at the pitfalls women face when, like the fairytale Cinderella, they focus on pleasing others and conforming to stereotypes instead of expressing their individuality. In this thought-provoking volume, clinical psychologist Vera Maass examines the negative side of the glory of Cinderella's promise: that women buying into the myth's demand for conformity risk losing their individuality and sacrificing their personal goals. Think the tale is too old or too innocent to be relevant? See television's "The Bachelor." Based on Maass' extensive psychotherapy work and interviews, The Cinderella Test: Would You Really Want the Shoe to Fit? provides answers and strategies to issues raised by clients in therapy and women in the community at large—women of all ages and backgrounds. Maass also integrates stories of women throughout history who broke through limits placed upon them by sociocultural expectations and achieved richer, more fulfilled lives. An eye-opening look at the choices and challenges faced by women today, The Cinderella Test shows the dangers of trying to make the foot fit the slipper, and why and how Cinderella herself should be doing the testing.

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2009
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Vera Sonja Maass
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-37924-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	0-313-37924-6
Barcode:	9780313379246

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