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Marion E. Jacob 

LONGING FOR WOMANHOOD

What Follows Emancipation?  

A book in the series WOMANHOOD TODAY

What is WOMANHOOD TODAY? 

For decades, women believed that the only way to establish their validity was to struggle to be equal to men. Today, the concern is to unfold woman’s natural sphere of action; to discover her womanhood.

This book invites both genders to ask the right questions in the search for the meaning of true womanhood.

- What defines womanhood? Why does our society undervalue it —other than that to which men like to allude with descriptive hand gestures?

- Why do we value predominantly male characteristics such as assertiveness, the desire to win over others, taking risks, and narrowly focusing on one point, instead of on interrelations? A direct consequence of this is the current state of our society, economy and environment.

- How can a woman use her inborn strengths to decisively help society meet today’s challenges?

Marion A. Jacob shows us that there is a significant dimension to womanhood beyond sex, eroticism and established gender roles. She also makes it clear that it is important for all of us to move towards understanding the significance of womanhood. The author gives a voice to women of different age groups and different places in society in form of recent interviews and conversations. In that, she succeeds in delineating a new understanding of a woman’s role: the unfolding of her womanly capabilities and powers.

More and more people feel this longing for womanhood. Allow yourself to become part of one of the greatest adventures of our time: the discovery of true womanhood!

The author:

Dr. Marion E. Jacob studied philosophy, German language and literature studies, cultural sciences, Protestant theology, and pedagogics. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the Media”. After completing her studies, she worked as a free-lance documentary film maker, television presenter, and editor within the German public sector television system. She quickly rose to become the head of the Bavarian television network’s department ‘Culture and Family’. Eleven years later, she founded the “BlueBear Media” film production agency. She is married with the physicist Friedrich Jacob.

Today, Dr. Jacob is a writer, media consultant, personal trainer and a sought-after speaker on the subject of womanhood. The power of the media has always resided in the male domain. But Dr. Jacob is successfully standing her ground in this environment. In doing that, she has gained insight and understanding of the significance of womanhood as an invaluable quality - for both, women and men.