02946cam a2200349 a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003000062020002700092040005900119082000700178100003600185245006100221260004000282300002500322336002100347337002500368338002300393504005400416505011700470520158400587521001002171541006902181546001202250650002302262650003102285650003602316942001202352998002902364999001702393952018602410OSt20250731102004.0960830s1997    nyu      b    000 0 eng    a9780440508328 [paperback]  a0440508320 [paperback]  aUniversity of Cebu-BaniladcUniversity of Cebu-Banilad002201 aRubin, Harriet,d1952-eauthor.14aThe princessa :bMachiavelli for women /cHarriet Rubin.  aNew York :bDell Publishing,c1997.  aix, 190 p. ;c20 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-184).0 aThe book of strategy -- The book of tactics -- The book of subtle weapons -- Epilogue: strategy for a wild peace  aCan a woman become more powerful without becoming a man?

Yes!

Women who triumph don't follow the rules; they flaunt them.

Harriet Rubin has studied the great female heroes in the wars of intimacy and public life, and distilled their behavior into a plan of action.  Whether confronting lovers, mothers, bosses, or competitors, The Princessa is a guide for the woman who feels she deserves far more than she has gotten through compromise.  While women have been socialized to avoid conflict, to be peacemakers, caretakers, and nurturers, Rubin shows how those very skills--sensitivity, emotional depth, and selflessness--can be codified into a new strategy of power.  The Princessa imparts inspiration and wisdom from history's great divas, poets, saints, sinners, and artists, as well as from leaders of the most important social movements in our time--women who, with the Furies inside them, in a spirit of justice and outrageousness, established their own rules of power.

Just as Machiavelli showed the prince how to use conflict in order to establish control, Rubin shows why women must act more like women.  "Think of mothers risking everything to defend their young," writes Rubin.  "Think of women overcoming all odds for love."  She shows how women, playing by men's rules, have only reinforced their own weakness.  So long as the gender wars are waged on male turf, women will always be fighting a losing battle.  It's time to win. Whatever your battlefield, The Princessa will incite you to act like a woman, fight like a woman, and live, at last, by your own rules.  aAdult  xLauron, RodelloyGeneral EducationzGeneral Interest: Self Help.  aEnglish 0aWomenxPsychology. 0aWomenxLife skills guides. 0aSelf-actualization (Psychology)  2ddccBK  cadryann[new]d07/14/2025  c13758d13758  00102ddc4070aUCBL_MAINbUCBL_MAINcGeneral Interestd2024-08-12eDonated by the Chancellor Ms Candice Gotianuyl0o646.70082 R82 1997p3UCBL000028865r2025-07-14w2025-07-14yGI