Having It All?: Choices for Today's Superwoman

About the author.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Who should read this book, and why?

1 Making Choices.

Choices for today's Superwoman.

Today's Superwoman.

Identifying the pressures: what we want, what we don'twant.

Exposing the myth of Superwoman.

Being true to yourself: making your own choices.

2 The Superwoman Syndrome.

The heart of women's psychology?

Historical background.

Women's minds and women's lives.

Who is a Superwoman?

The history of today's Superwoman.

'Superwoman Quits!!!' - reasoned withdrawal orbacklash politics?

The heart and mind of Superwoman.

What women want.

Controlling women's bodies and minds.

Superwoman rising from the ashes.

Conclusions.

3 Psychological survival and managing your 'self'.

The psychodynamic approach.

Presenting your self.

Choice and preference: clues to our self-awareness.

What do we need? What do we want?

Fulfilment and health.

Self-actualisation and psychological type.

Superwomen, choices and having it all.

I know who I am.

What have feelings got to do with it?

Mind the gap!

Self-fulfilment and the emergence of our personalSuperwoman.

What others do to you.

Being confident in adversity.

Conclusions.

4 Myth, magic or just hard work.

What type of Superwoman are you?: Are you sure you should bedoing this?

Describing Superwoman.

Real and false choices.

Beware of the false self.

The real self: understanding our drives.

What about Superwoman?

What kind of Superwoman are you?

But really - who are you?

5 The rise of Superwoman

From fear of success to emotional intelligence Women'smotives at work.

Fear of success: the myth of the passive woman?

Femininity and passivity: women's natural self?

Different bodies, different minds.

Freud and femininity.

Biology, genes, brains and gender.

From different psychologies to better psychologies.

Emotional intelligence and female natures: are we the winnersnow?

Emotional competence.

Conclusions.

6 It is still a man's world!

Having it all at work: Having it all - at work.

Real women's lives.

Conflicts at work: challenges to having it all.

Beware of hazards.

Mapping the territory.

Barriers to success and the downfall of a Queen Bee.

Overcoming internal barriers.

Overcoming external barriers.

Conclusions.

7 Motherhood versus the glittering career.

Coping with the backlash Lifestyle choices for Superwoman.

Expectations versus reality: what do you do when the babyarrives?

You can still find a pathway to success!

The emancipation of mothers: an oxymoron!

The role of fathers in the lifestyle choice.

Superwoman and the backlash against feminism.

Conclusions: You don't need to do it all and youdon't need to lose it all!

8 Coping with stress.

Superwoman says 'no!' Juggle don'tstruggle!

Stress and Superwoman.

Recognising stress in our lives.

How to cope with stress.

Breaking the stress/burn-out cycle?

Assertiveness - saying 'no'.

Conclusions.

9 Challenging choices.

Working with what you've got!: So who has problemsnow?

Women joining in.

Choices for today's Superwoman.

Further information.

Notes and references.

Index.