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The book Women, Stereotypes and Archetypes, by Manisha Roy, explores the complexity of modern woman's identity which is no longer supported by convenient but limiting stereotypes. The book tries to answer following questions :
-How do the women handle the confusion arising from such a loss?
-If stereotypes are rejected can understanding of the meaning and function of the archetypes in human psyche offer the majority of women guidelines to a secure identity?
-Is an American woman's problem of identity different from that of a woman of another culture?
-And finally, where does all this change and crisis lead? Examples from the author's analytical practice of 40 years and life-long anthropological research and teaching are used to support her observations and conclusions.
About the author
Manisha Roy, PhD, is a geographer, anthropologist and Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Cambridge, USA and has been on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston for thirty-seven years. She has taught at the universities in India, the United States and Switzerland and lectured all over the world. She is the author of nine books, 40 articles which include short stories and poems. She also co-edited three books. She writes in two languages - English and Bengali. Her first book, a non-fiction titled Bengali Women (Chicago Univ. Press, 1975, 1992) has gone through two prints and two editions. This book is now used by many women's studies departments of several universities all over the world.
