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The Girl Within by Hancock, Emily is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Girl Within about?

Any woman reading The Girl Within will have the extraordinary experience of self-discovery as she finds in this collection of women's life stories the playful, purposeful, self-possessed girl of her childhood. Author Emily Hancock claims that this self-possessed girl -- a girl who knows who she is and what she's about -- is a resource for contemporary women. Dr. Hancock concludes, however, that a female easily loses sight of who and what she really is beneath the feminine facade she adopts in youth -- simply through the process of growing up female. The women Hancock interviewed reclaim the forgotten girl. They trace not just one but a variety of paths back to her. In a series of first-person accounts that read like marvelous mini-novels, Hancock elucidates the vicissitudes of losing and refinding the essential self. From the story of Katherine, a pediatrician whose grandmother hosted musical salons, to that of Jo, whose father put bootblack on her white socks when her toes poked through her black shoes, the girl who harbors a female's original identity reappears again and again. Women who reached back to catch hold of a girl they could rely on to found in the girl a source of woma

Who reads The Girl Within?

Author

Hancock, Emily

Publisher

Fawcett Columbine

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780449905593

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy

Rating

3.51 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14