Psychoanalytic discussions are reviewed on the mistrust and fear of femininity, both in childhood sexual theories and in “A Child Is Being Beaten,” ending with Freud's 1937 comment that the rejection of the feminine, occurs not only among men, but also in women. The author considers the transmission from mother to daughter of what the author calls a strategy for femininity. The pleasure of the young female child in exhibiting herself, especially to her father, may arouse severe anxiety in the mother, who senses the pleasure of exhibition she herself once felt.