Publisher's Synopsis
A woman's biologically assigned role is to give birth to children and to rear them. The male role is to support and protect this process. Both roles are biologically and psychologically archetypal and written into each gender. Women do not easily fit into the wild masculine jungle of individual quest, achievement and self-realization. The grim prayer of Lady Macbeth before her terrible deed, "Unsex me here!" pinpoints the contradiction of an individual woman's quest for a "manly" kind of self-realization. In fact the woman's role is far more important than the man's role, which is subsidiary to her supreme procreative function. A woman's body is the miraculous vessel of all human life, and a man is there only to facilitate the process; his function is only secondary to hers. He merely supplies the seed and plants it, but she is the fertile soil in which it must grow to fruition. Thus she possesses the greater and more essential power of Nature itself.
