ABSTRACT
Analysing, interpreting and even coming better to understand the self may be a target of all good communication students but the key to a contented life may lie more simply in that elusive substance, self esteem. Mary Ragan advocates ‘a healthy self-esteem’ as the basis of the ability to ‘cope, rebound and transcend’. Ragan is particularly concerned to explore the ‘problems that women face in this culture, a culture that is both sexist and patriarchal’.
