Modern Mothering: What Daughters Say They Need from Their Mothers Regarding Sexual Development and Its Impact on Their Self Worth

Modern Mothering is based on psychoanalyst Joyce McFadden’s unprecedented study of 450 women, in which women could talk about whatever was important to them, and it was the women of her study who determined this book’s topic: how girls learn about sexuality from their mothers. Full of the narratives of women and girls, kept in their own words, hear what daughters say they need from their mothers when it comes to learning about their sexuality, and learn how much more present they want us to...