Richard W. Coan’s new book, MASCULINE, FEMININE, AND FULLY HUMAN: DEVELOPMENTAL PATHS THROUGH THE ADULT YEARS, is “in print at last.”
About the book: How do men and women differ psychologically? Should men strive to realize all their masculine potentials? Should women seek to realize all their feminine potentials? Should everyone seek androgyny, a balalnced realization of both masculine and feminine sides?
Most writers have oversimplified the issue by treating masculinity and femininity as just two dimensions or as opposite ends of one grand dimension. Yet we are really dealing with at least a dozen distinguishable traits, and each is represented by traditional heroic and divine figures in major mythologies.
Each trait is manifested in both male and femail mythic figures, and it can be cultivated by both men and women. Every individual should seek to develop a balanced combination of these traits, but we do not all need to follow the same path.
You can order this book directly from the publisher at www.authorhouse.com or through the book order hotline at 888-280-7715
Taken from THE WRITE WORD, the newsletter of The Society of Southwestern Authors Vol. 37. No. 1 Feb-March 2009
