The Myth of the Money Tree: Women's Hidden Fear of Supporting Themselves

by Colette Dowling

In this book, Colette Dowling author of "The Cinderella Complex" confronts the myth of women's financial stability and explores female attitudes to money, dependency and desire. Dowling strongly believes that women's dread of financial responsibility is related to their fear of ending up destitute. Under scrutiny, this fear exposes the reality that women want, more than anything, to be provided for.

Genres: Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

An American psychotherapist and writer best known for her 1981 book The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, which was a New York Times best-seller.

Reviews

[Alex Ankarr · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like almost any old memoir, including ones about money. Good God, it's riveting watching her career through one (fully avoidable) financial disaster after another, like she's backwards on a dogsled racing downhill.

[Geraldine · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was really useful - especially for women of my generation but younger women should read it too. I could have done without the dreamwork descriptions and ventures in Jungian theory but the general gist of the book was great. Clearly aimed at heterosexual women though and this led me to wonder how women who don't expect to marry a man foresee their financial security as they do not have the myth of a prince coming to rescue them to fall back on.