cover image Femininity Lost and Regained

Femininity Lost and Regained

Robert A. Johnson. HarperCollins Publishers, $11 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-092063-0

Western culture, where feminine qualities are excluded and power overrules compassion, is compared with Eastern codes that value the feminine; the author predicts a growing Western affirmation of feminine worth. ``As philosophical as it is psychological, this slim, idiosyncratic volume offers provocative ideas in an impassioned tone,'' said PW. (Mar.)