This book consists of papers presented by 20 feminist authors from six different countries—at an international conference on “Daughtering and Mothering,” held at Utrecht University in 1991. Although most of the participants were trained in psychotherapy, others came from linguistics, sociology, political science, psychology, and social work. They were united in their affiliations with Women's Studies groups, and in their concern with liberating women from following in their mothers' footsteps. Therefore, they set out to search for the means to overcome traditional socialization, with the help of psychoanalysis. In her introduction, Janneke van Mens-Verhulst, states that the participants primarily were