Mothers and daughters : loving and letting go / Evelyn Bassoff.

Spine title: Mothers & daughters.

"NAL books."

Includes bibliographic references (p. 261-271) and index.

1 Opened doors: an introduction. 2 Demeters story: loss and transcendence. 3 Good or bad apples: mothers and sex. 4 Love's hard service: mothers of troubled girls. 5 Momma's body, Momma's food: eating disorders. 6 Stirring the oatmeal: mothers as wives. 7 Sorting seeds: mothers as single women. 8 Beyond Dr. Seuss: adoptive mothers. 9 Goldilocks' dilemma: stepmothers. 10 Letting go: mother to mother to daughter

'For a mother, a girl's adolescence--her emerging womanhood and increasing desire for independence--dramatically changes the once-exclusive mother-daughter relationship. It is a change that often creates in mothers profound feelings of anxiety, rejection, and loss....Drawing on case studies from her own practice, and using examples from myths, fairy tales, and contemporary literature, Dr. Bassoff, herself the mother of a teenage daughter, illustrates the forces at work and describes ways in which other mothers have successfully worked through this emotionally fraught period to achieve greater growth and happiness.'

Paperback (Katerbound)