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Women Behaving Badly
Have you ever been hurt by a woman? Ever wondered why women can be complicated creatures? Would you like to protect yourself from the bitching, gossiping and manipulation?
Alana Munro takes us deep into the unnerving yet compelling reality of being a woman, revealing a world where females don't nurture other females.
Women Behaving Badly shatters our assumption that all women are loving. It ruptures the delusion of sisterhood. It heightens our awareness of what goes on behind the sweet smiles. It liberates women from the emotional prison that can be womanhood.
This book offers us nothing but the truth. Alana argues that the bonds between women are most often fragile and fickle. She also argues that the ideology of sisterhood is optimistic but unrealistic. Women are human beings with profound emotional short comings.
Alana also looks at how we can weed out the negative women, pin point suspect behaviours and most importantly how women can protect themself from future hurt.
Alana writes candidly about her own personal experiences with women. She shares many deeply personal stories about her own experiences of bitching, gossiping, bullying, power games, jealousy and more. She offers important life lessons and insights into the often shocking behaviours carried out by the fairer sex. This book attempts to understand the huge range of toxic behaviours carried out by some women and why some women behave so badly towards other women.
Alana Munro takes us deep into the unnerving yet compelling reality of being a woman, revealing a world where females don't nurture other females.
Women Behaving Badly shatters our assumption that all women are loving. It ruptures the delusion of sisterhood. It heightens our awareness of what goes on behind the sweet smiles. It liberates women from the emotional prison that can be womanhood.
This book offers us nothing but the truth. Alana argues that the bonds between women are most often fragile and fickle. She also argues that the ideology of sisterhood is optimistic but unrealistic. Women are human beings with profound emotional short comings.
Alana also looks at how we can weed out the negative women, pin point suspect behaviours and most importantly how women can protect themself from future hurt.
Alana writes candidly about her own personal experiences with women. She shares many deeply personal stories about her own experiences of bitching, gossiping, bullying, power games, jealousy and more. She offers important life lessons and insights into the often shocking behaviours carried out by the fairer sex. This book attempts to understand the huge range of toxic behaviours carried out by some women and why some women behave so badly towards other women.
110 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2012
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About the author
Alana Munro
3 books261 followersAlana Munro was born in West Lothian, Scotland on a sunny Spring morning early on the 3rd of May 1981. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree from an Edinburgh University, but her first love was writing.
In recent years the Munro family moved to Australia. They have three adorable sons.
After raising beautiful babies and getting lost in piles of dirty washing she penned her first book, Women Behaving Badly - Exposing the Truth about Female Friendship.
Alana's debut book was a #1 bestseller on Amazon Kindle USA twice during 2013. She has been interviewed in a live radio studio by ABC, featured in a national magazine and much more. Her personal and controversial book sparked media interest within Australia during 2013.
Alana is in the process of writing her second book, running her book marketing business and publishing on her popular blog. http://alanamunroauthor.com/
*Alana is still lost in mountains of dirty washing most of the time. Red wine helps!
You can contact Alana directly by emailing her at alanamunroauthor@gmail.com, click to see Alana's first press article,
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regi...
Click to see Alana's support group for all writers, https://plus.google.com/communities/1...
In recent years the Munro family moved to Australia. They have three adorable sons.
After raising beautiful babies and getting lost in piles of dirty washing she penned her first book, Women Behaving Badly - Exposing the Truth about Female Friendship.
Alana's debut book was a #1 bestseller on Amazon Kindle USA twice during 2013. She has been interviewed in a live radio studio by ABC, featured in a national magazine and much more. Her personal and controversial book sparked media interest within Australia during 2013.
Alana is in the process of writing her second book, running her book marketing business and publishing on her popular blog. http://alanamunroauthor.com/
*Alana is still lost in mountains of dirty washing most of the time. Red wine helps!
You can contact Alana directly by emailing her at alanamunroauthor@gmail.com, click to see Alana's first press article,
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regi...
Click to see Alana's support group for all writers, https://plus.google.com/communities/1...
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July 31, 2014
This is an armchair psychology book about the dynamics of friendships shared between women. It explains how women relate to other women and the problems that can occur. Because some women can behave badly to other women and Alana reveals all.
I am pleased that Alana was brave enough to tackle this socially difficult subject. The stereotype of women is one of care, gentleness and motherly love. However women can become very jealous, intense, bitchy, competitive and play power games. Alana reveals the harsh truths about woman to woman (non-lesbian) relationships.
This book was aimed at women but as a married man for the past 22 years, I related to the analysis and tales that Alana gives the reader. I can see a lot of what Alana highlights in a lot of my wife's female friends. Women talk among themselves in a very different way to how men talk to each other.
Alana has a lenghty introduction to the conflicts between women and she waffles on quite a lot. Her book lacks editing and she takes many, many pages to say just a little. It is easy to understand but she does labour her points. When I finished reading this book it all made sense to me and I found it quite funny but childish how many adult women deal with their peers.
I found this book an okay read that explains why women so often fall out with each other. It will also help newly married men understand how women think so that they can have an easier time at home with their new wife. Alana puts a lot of padding into her book and she rants like a drunken friend, so I will vote it a middling score of 3 stars.
Women Behaving Badly is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2013.
I am pleased that Alana was brave enough to tackle this socially difficult subject. The stereotype of women is one of care, gentleness and motherly love. However women can become very jealous, intense, bitchy, competitive and play power games. Alana reveals the harsh truths about woman to woman (non-lesbian) relationships.
This book was aimed at women but as a married man for the past 22 years, I related to the analysis and tales that Alana gives the reader. I can see a lot of what Alana highlights in a lot of my wife's female friends. Women talk among themselves in a very different way to how men talk to each other.
Alana has a lenghty introduction to the conflicts between women and she waffles on quite a lot. Her book lacks editing and she takes many, many pages to say just a little. It is easy to understand but she does labour her points. When I finished reading this book it all made sense to me and I found it quite funny but childish how many adult women deal with their peers.
I found this book an okay read that explains why women so often fall out with each other. It will also help newly married men understand how women think so that they can have an easier time at home with their new wife. Alana puts a lot of padding into her book and she rants like a drunken friend, so I will vote it a middling score of 3 stars.
Women Behaving Badly is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2013.
July 10, 2013
Women Behaving Badly is a fun read from the start. If you think that it's a book about bashing women, it isn't. The book opened my eyes to situations that were occurring in my own life. It helped me to understand why some women behave the way they do toward me and other women, and at the end it left me with hope that there could be healthy, loving relationships between women.
June 12, 2013
This an easy read, but also quite disquieting. Alana Munro has felt compelled to expose the 'dark side of feminine relations'. The bitchy side - vindictive, manipulative and oh so jealous.
It is a heartfelt and well-written book. The author draws on incidents from her own life, and the experiences of other women who have suffered unfairly at the hands of their supposed friends. She tries to understand what causes women to treat each other this way. Much of what is said is no secret, but there is much that is thought-provoking. This ought to be essential reading for women of all ages.
Note: This is in part a self-help book, and I find that aspect a little frustrating - but I'm not really the target audience...
It is a heartfelt and well-written book. The author draws on incidents from her own life, and the experiences of other women who have suffered unfairly at the hands of their supposed friends. She tries to understand what causes women to treat each other this way. Much of what is said is no secret, but there is much that is thought-provoking. This ought to be essential reading for women of all ages.
Note: This is in part a self-help book, and I find that aspect a little frustrating - but I'm not really the target audience...
May 21, 2013
I think your book is really fantastic as it brings some blatant
I think your book is really fantastic as it brings some blatant truth on women’s friendship. While we are busy advocating feminism and women empowerment, I think the very first step should should come from women empowering each other and not considering them as rivals or competitions. Women’s friendship dies fast as we carry negative thoughts and expects more from a friendship, unlike men!! I think it is a must read for all women to kick the ignorance on this issue and make real friendship.
Girls compete each other, women empower each other!
I think your book is really fantastic as it brings some blatant truth on women’s friendship. While we are busy advocating feminism and women empowerment, I think the very first step should should come from women empowering each other and not considering them as rivals or competitions. Women’s friendship dies fast as we carry negative thoughts and expects more from a friendship, unlike men!! I think it is a must read for all women to kick the ignorance on this issue and make real friendship.
Girls compete each other, women empower each other!
April 21, 2024
While this book is full of many gross generalizations, it’s also very honest and provocative - and it has the potential to generate some very interesting book club discussions.
August 18, 2013
How many times have you sought out answers about your relationships with women from one of those newsstand magazines or columns that you read in your local paper? After you read the answer, you sort of are left with an answer that makes you feel good for the moment but leaves you with a questions mark. Well, after reading this book, it will leave you with a lot more than that. Some people might get mad reading this book because of the brutal honesty but I think the majority will nod with affirmation because they have been there and can relate too many of the experiences. This is not a self-help book or a book that bashes women. It is a bold unapologetic truth that shatters the unspoken status quo of women behaviors involving their relationships with each other.
This book was definitely easy to read. The content was so engaging that you find yourself coasting through. I really admire the author for putting it all there. Her vulnerability and her introspective analysis throughout the book gave the reader much to think about. There is definitely something to be said from learning from your experiences. Drawn from her personal experiences and personal stories from others, it really gives you a firsthand account of truly how many women treat each other behind the cordial facade.
This book highlights the good, the bad and the definitely ugly aspects of what we are not, what we are and what we can be towards each other to acknowledge the truth and sustain meaningful relationships that complement our lives. Trust me, nothing was sugar coated, fluffed or words minced. If there were seven deadly sins about women, than this book would define them. This book is definitely for all women from all walks of life. Once you read it, you will definite look at your relationships differently.
This book was definitely easy to read. The content was so engaging that you find yourself coasting through. I really admire the author for putting it all there. Her vulnerability and her introspective analysis throughout the book gave the reader much to think about. There is definitely something to be said from learning from your experiences. Drawn from her personal experiences and personal stories from others, it really gives you a firsthand account of truly how many women treat each other behind the cordial facade.
This book highlights the good, the bad and the definitely ugly aspects of what we are not, what we are and what we can be towards each other to acknowledge the truth and sustain meaningful relationships that complement our lives. Trust me, nothing was sugar coated, fluffed or words minced. If there were seven deadly sins about women, than this book would define them. This book is definitely for all women from all walks of life. Once you read it, you will definite look at your relationships differently.
January 12, 2015
Women Behaving Badly was a different kind of read for me. My normal reading genre does not normally include a book of this nature, but that said, the book more than delivered. Being a man, I was intrigued by the insightfulness of this book, which peels back the onion-skin on female relationships and how women treat one another and WHY. The author's interpretation and diagnosis of the quirks and underpinnings of woman-to-woman interactions, the brutish, back-biting and scandalous talk sometimes engaged, the social and moral expectations and pressures which exist within this community are very well laid out and revealed in this book. Alana Munro does a wonderful job of showing both the good, the bad and the ugly of the world of women - and she doesn't hold back any punches either. The emphasis throughout the book is not on the negative, but rather, it lucidly points up the downside in order to show the upside, the positive, and how to successfully navigate these waters. I have personally experienced working close to a tight-knit clique of women who headed up an organization, and I found a lot of relevance in this book which helped better understand the peculiarities of that world, which, as Alana correctly points out, is less the case in relationships/friendships between men. It's a good book. I would recommend it to both genders because I think it helps us to better understand the social pressures which are inherently endured by women, pressures which are not forced upon men by societal mores, and how this affects women in many aspects of their lives. I found it useful and it explained things to me which I had observed or experienced, but had not fully understood.
November 7, 2013
This review is from: Women Behaving Badly (Kindle Edition)
An honest account of women's interactions in life and friendships. Many topics are covered on what propels women to find fault in other women. This book demonstrates how some relationships can become toxic and discusses the signs along the way to these discoveries. There are indicators when to walk away, when situations are not healthy. True female friendships should not have to be work. The author points out a poignant statement - it is much better to have a handful of good intimate friends than to have many who are not true friends. It's not about being a perfect person, it's about being accepting of a whole person, flaws and all without having to be ridiculed or backstabbed. Friendship is about loyalty, no pretenses, no judgements,this is what the author is trying to portray. She makes a point about 'listening' to someone before bearing your soul to understand that person and their morals and values, to form a trust, for that is what friendship is about. I particularly like the bit about women dining out together and beware of the one who takes out her calculator to add up her own specific portion, as I have encountered this myself a few times in life and found those types of people were the ones for other reasons that followed to be also reserved somewhat in sharing true friendship.
A good read!
An honest account of women's interactions in life and friendships. Many topics are covered on what propels women to find fault in other women. This book demonstrates how some relationships can become toxic and discusses the signs along the way to these discoveries. There are indicators when to walk away, when situations are not healthy. True female friendships should not have to be work. The author points out a poignant statement - it is much better to have a handful of good intimate friends than to have many who are not true friends. It's not about being a perfect person, it's about being accepting of a whole person, flaws and all without having to be ridiculed or backstabbed. Friendship is about loyalty, no pretenses, no judgements,this is what the author is trying to portray. She makes a point about 'listening' to someone before bearing your soul to understand that person and their morals and values, to form a trust, for that is what friendship is about. I particularly like the bit about women dining out together and beware of the one who takes out her calculator to add up her own specific portion, as I have encountered this myself a few times in life and found those types of people were the ones for other reasons that followed to be also reserved somewhat in sharing true friendship.
A good read!
January 26, 2015
From gossip to competition, Alana Munro takes the reader along for an examination of why women think and act the way they do from her own personal experiences. The gentle, nurturing exterior of women isn't always the truth to what they're truly thinking on the inside. Sometimes women can get downright jealous and cruel, and this book can help you avoid the friendships that can have a negative impact on your life.
If you have ever found yourself questioning why women do the things that they do, 'Women Behaving Badly' is a great book to read to get more insight about them. This book has helped me rule myself out as the odd one, and instead better see that truth and honesty in a friendship is more important than being the most popular.
If you have ever found yourself questioning why women do the things that they do, 'Women Behaving Badly' is a great book to read to get more insight about them. This book has helped me rule myself out as the odd one, and instead better see that truth and honesty in a friendship is more important than being the most popular.
June 29, 2013
In Women Behaving Badly, Alana Munro exposes the ugly underbelly of female friendships. In this brave discussion of how women mistreat each other; Munro discusses how jealousy, gossip, and competitiveness erode relationships. She shares her own deeply personal experiences as well as the stories of pain and betrayal she has collected. I found it cathartic to read about how super intense female friendship is not “closeness” but a form of manipulation. The discussion of cliques and exclusive dyads was spot on.
Ms. Munro does not merely debunk the notion of a sisterhood of women. The last section of the book lays out some good tips on what to look for in a healthy friendship and offers support to every woman hurting from the betrayal and pain found in many female friendships.
Ms. Munro does not merely debunk the notion of a sisterhood of women. The last section of the book lays out some good tips on what to look for in a healthy friendship and offers support to every woman hurting from the betrayal and pain found in many female friendships.
May 2, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Toxic Relationships, May 2, 2015
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This review is from: Women Behaving Badly: Exposing the Truth about Female Friendship (Paperback)
A well written book about females that can be toxic in a relationship with another woman. Though I have not had this experience except for one time, I found the personal stories informative, interesting, and sad. How and why some women are destructive were due to jealousy, poor self esteem, and struggle for power and recognition.
Thank you for opening my eyes to this social dilemma that can be so harmful to all involved.
July 6, 2015
Loved this book
Incredibly valuable insights about women's relationships. Overall a terrific book I highly recommend. If you struggle with identifying "frenemies" this book is for you. This is one of those rare books that is life-changing. Trite as that sounds there are ideas and concepts that may actually help you identify your own problematic behavior around friendships and who to let in and keep out of your life. One quibble: I have worked in male dominated fields and found some of the interactions just as toxic.
Incredibly valuable insights about women's relationships. Overall a terrific book I highly recommend. If you struggle with identifying "frenemies" this book is for you. This is one of those rare books that is life-changing. Trite as that sounds there are ideas and concepts that may actually help you identify your own problematic behavior around friendships and who to let in and keep out of your life. One quibble: I have worked in male dominated fields and found some of the interactions just as toxic.
December 1, 2015
This author must be full of drama or a horrible friend magnet. Yes there is drama and sometimes painful relationships out there with lady friends but nothing like she portrays it. She makes us all seems like jealous, witchy, rude, selfish friends.
Maybe I'm just lucky with who my friends are. :)
Maybe I'm just lucky with who my friends are. :)
August 8, 2016
Thank you, Alana, for this book. I needed this book. I needed the confirmation that these destructive behaviors in women do exist. The competition, the fake compassion. The lies, the backstabbing. it's all so exhausting. Why is it so difficult for women to be real and honest? This book was short, but very powerful.
February 21, 2015
Insightful!!
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