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Women and their fathers

by Victoria Secunda

This book is a groundbreaking examination of that long-ignored but crucial connection: Daddy and his daughter. It is the first to pull together the available research on "good" and "bad" fathers. Drawing on hundreds of interviews of women and fathers, leading researchers, and the latest studies, it is a pioneering exploration of how the father-daughter relationship sets the stage for a woman's future romantic choices, how it forms her sexuality and her sense of herself as a woman, and how it shapes our culture and even our governmental policies regarding women, children, and families.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?