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The way of all women was first published in 1933, reprinted a dozen times, translated into five languages, and has now appeared in a revised edition. The author mentions in the preface her own surprise that so few alterations were needed to bring it up to date. Several minor corrections were made, and a few new paragraphs inserted in the text (those on the problems around the age of sixty are not without interest), but practically the book has remained the same.
Brought up, so to speak, with the writings of Jungian pioneers such as Esther Harding, I approached The way of all women with apprehension that today it would strike me as dated, but was glad to find that on the whole it does not. It is an intelligent introduction to Jungian psychology from the woman's point of view; it breaks new ground in reversing woman's assumption that her value depends on conforming to the role commonly allotted to her. The number of reprints shows that many readers have found their