Women's Rites of Passage: How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life
- ISBN-10
- 0742547485
- ISBN-13
- 9780742547483
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 253
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Abigail Brenner
Description
A provocative assessment of the differences between modern women who respectively embrace and resist change explains how women can take responsibility for their lives and choices by creating personal rites of passage, drawing on scholarly research and inspirational personal stories to offer tribute to key life transitions. Original.
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