Author: Catherine Robson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780691004228

In so doing, she reveals the link between the idealization of little girls and a widespread fantasy of male development - a myth suggesting that men become masculine only after an initial feminine stage, lived out in the protective environment of the nursery. Little girls, argues Robson, thus offer an adult male the best opportunity to reconnect with his own lost self.".