The Art of Being A Woman - 1951

"Women readers will find in this book a new and fascinating approach to their intimate and their public problems: men, whether bachelors or married, will experience the entertainment, and possibly the enlightenment, of those overhearing a conversation not meant for their own ears. [...] To-day a woman looking at her fellow women, thinking about her own life, wonders how she herself should see her own part in the life of the community. For what sort of future is she supposed to bring up a daughter? How ought the nation's daughters to be reared and educated? Amabel Williams-Ellis is a novelist and broadcaster and she has certainly not written a solemn feminist tract. What she tries to show is modern women's problems in the light of new knowledge. Home, of course, is deeply important, but will a home in which the wife and mother is a 'Human Sacrifice' really be a happy one? On the other hand what about the career woman who gives up her emotional life as a bad job? Could it be that the Art of Being a Woman is the art of being one particular woman with quite individual problems? Might it not be very important to learn to look in the glass..." - The Art of Being A Woman - Amabel Williams-Ellis Published 1951, The Bodley Head, London Hardcover. Approx. 5x7.5in. 236pp. Dustjacket has some wear and fading. Book itself is in decent vintage condition.