We live in a time of unparalleled opportunity for women and a time, just
because of that opportunity, of great stress. It is a time when every
woman can find her own particular style, to develop her skills, to
acknowledge her needs and failures, and to claim both her satisfactions
and dissatisfactions. The old stereotypes are all but dead. But another
danger threatens; of new stereotyped roles for women in the very range
of choices and opportunities presented to the RECEIVING WOMAN grew out
of a decade of reflections on women's experiences - my own, my
patients', and my students', writes Professor Ulanov. From all of them,
a common voice emerged speaking about each woman's struggle to receive
all of herself. Each was trying to find and put together different parts
of herself into a whole that was personal, alive, and real to her and to
others.