Free (Kindle) Why Women Fail: Consequences of Evolution [Vintage Psychology Advice]

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Why Women Fail: The consequences of female evolution by the late English author Ann Dally (Wikipedia, obituary @ The Guardian), a psychiatrist turned medical historian, is her vintage accessibly-written pop psychology text with a side of potential-fulfilling self-help, which posits that the then-recent (circa the 1970s) social freedoms gained by women paradoxically resulted in greater restrictions on their personal expressions of them, for a variety of reasons the Gentle Reader is encouraged to overcome, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press's Odyssey imprint.

This was originally published in 1979 by Wildwood House Ltd.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
Something dreadful is happening to women.

Not directly to all women but to a sufficient number to affect nearly all women and indeed society as a whole.

This dreadful thing — for it is to be dreaded — is self-destructiveness, that strange process by which humans sometimes damage or destroy themselves in body, mind or spirit.

So writes Dr Ann Dally — doctor, psychiatrist and author.

In The Morbid Streak she showed how self-destructiveness distorts our lives and poisons our relationships.

Here, she painfully and compassionately explores a paradox.

Women are beginning to throw off the bonds of the last centuries, but as they emerge, the very freedoms and open choices they achieve thrust them brutally into underachievement, tranquillizer-addiction, neurosis, breakdown and even suicide.

And in our modern society, self-destruction in these forms equals failure.

So women’s personalities and the pressures of the new society conspire to cheat women of their ambitions, their self-esteem and their emotions.

Why Women Fail is a fascinating study that does not only analyse the tragedy of women's constriction in society, but also shows how we can all work to restructure the values of society and enable women to achieve self-fulfilment.