{"product_id":"jealousy","title":"Jealousy","description":"Description for JEALOUSY by Nancy Friday: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nWhether you are jealous---or vehemently deny ever feeling jealousy---this book is about your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThe author who revolutionized our knowledge of human sexuality with MY SECRET GARDEN and MEN IN LOVE...who uncovered dynamic new truths about a primal bond in her classic MY MOTHER\/MY SELF...now examines a deeply rooted, often buried emotion that distorts our most intimate relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nIn the opening chapter, \"Memoirs of a Jealous Woman,\" Nancy Friday makes her personal confession of the strange role jealousy has played in her life.  Her candid, even ruthless honesty leads her readers to ask questions of their own lives and of those close to them.  Why are some people more jealous than others?  Are women more jealous than men?  Why do some of us compete when a rival appears on the scene and others walk away, avoiding even the threat of competition?  Why doesn't success in love and work put jealousy to sleep forever?  Does the seed of jealousy originate in Freud's oedipal triangle or does it, as Friday suggests, begin even earlier in the primal relationship with mother?  And what about brothers and sisters, what role do those powerful relationships play in jealousy?  Is jealousy perhaps programmed into our very genes?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nFriday's voyage of discovery includes a psychoanalyst friend of whom she asks:  \"Have you ever been jealous?\"  His vehement denial begins a riveting human narrative.  The book gains the pace and suspense of a psychological thriller as Friday, like a detective tracking down every clue, probes deep into the disguises jealousy uses to hide itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nThe traditional defenses we carry against jealousy have crumbled in the last two decades with the rise of women's rights and the ebbing of the old patriarchal society.  Men and women are left staring into the red-hot heart of rage, envy, and jealousy.  The goal, jealousy but to understand it.  Only when we come to terms with our destructiveness can we pen ourselves to gratitude and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42954324934872,"sku":"9780688043216","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/JealousyFriday.jpg?v=1654984761","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/jealousy","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}