Are you ready to do what it takes to embrace your true self?
Professionals, parents, married couples. Relationships, work, self-development… you too have wondered about the secret to balancing all into one single package. Many of you have struggled to get back on your feet after making the wrong calls at certain points of your life. Calls based on cultural circumstances, peer pressure and old fashioned patriarchal structures that need to be challenged to enable women’s true empowerment through authentic equality. Only by breaking the endless chains of gender biased constructions, can we hope to join forces as one and make way to a revamping feminism that fills in the gap that still keeps us apart.
Andreina Matute has built a challenging self-help title that courageously highlights the virtues, dangers, downsides and rewards of embracing the true woman identity that society demands today. Through her own bittersweet yet worthwhile life experiences as a woman, sociologist and a single mother of two, and relentless pursuit for success, she has managed to put together a series of matters that dwell inside the minds of many women that are fighting to claim a fairer place in society.
Are we the dreams and hopes we once wished to be? Do we pursuit the personas we genuinely identify with? Or have we fallen through the millions of gaps of society? If you ever gone through crucial life decisions that made you question your identity or feel stuck in everyday life routines, take a courageous leap into this title to have a good look at the mirror and make your way to personal growth, comfort and wellbeing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
Women’s empowerment movement: A beacon for society development
- Women’s empowerment movement: Where did it all begin?
- That’s great! But where are we now…?
- What women’s empowerment should be about
- How has this movement affected our woman identity and where could we go from here
CHAPTER 2
Women and power
- Women and power
- Women in power: remarkable role models and how they handle their identities
- Women in society and how they are perceived
CHAPTER 3
Marriage A woman’s perspective – Part 1
- Names and marriages: traditions over personal decisions?
- Three aspects to deliberate when considering changing your maiden name after marriage
- My name is my identity
- What the honorific “Mrs.” means to a woman and her identity
- Under the husband’s shadow
CHAPTER 4
Marriage A woman’s perspective – Part 2
- Roles in marriage: Equality in roles, consensus and happiness
- About bad habits with love, sex and relationships within marriage
- Wrong social constructs and beliefs that empower incorrect conducts in marriage
- Maintaining your identity through marriage
CHAPTER 5
Partner-hood society and relationships
- Is cohabiting recent spikes in modern day society replacing the traditional married lifestyle?
- Fear of commitment or fear of losing your individuality?
- Cohabiting: Role distributions and mechanics for heterosexual and homosexual couples
- Partner-hood, marriages or cohabitation: We need to find better (and healthier) ways to connect with our partners and own needs
CHAPTER 6
Body image, social media and identity
- Transcending the hostile objectification of the female body: Women, more than objects
- Social media as an enhancer of the instrumentation of physical appearances and perfect lifestyles
- The hyper-glorification of the body culture and its toxic consequences
- Synchronizing our body Image and identity to project our inner selves to achieve true wellbeing
CHAPTER 7
Identity after the divorce
- Life right after divorce: A world of mixed feelings between sense of freedom, guilt, confusion and perhaps, remorse
- Consequences of divorce: Going through the worst
- Battling through the identity crisis… When did we stop being ourselves?
- Undergoing the healing process while discovering our new self or rediscovering ourselves
- Under the lens of society’s idealized standards
- Rediscovery is all about keep pushing ahead
CHAPTER 8
Putting ourselves first while exploring for identity
- Why do some women lose self-love through their journeys in life?
- The Identity model: Harmonizing our inner selves through our potentials and talents
- The three key foundations needed in our path to an established identity: Self-Esteem, Self-Worth and Self-Concept
- Self-Love: More than fuel, a light for hope
CHAPTER 9
From woman identity to society development for all
- Where do women stand now? What we have gained
- Female power figures nurturing the future
- Closing the gender gap (and any other gap) for the sake of development
- Keeping the momentum going: the future is now
- Integration: As members of a greater community, we have to find a way to give back
- The road back to rediscover my identity