NOT a Father's Daughter is an intimate portrait of a woman who unknowingly declared at the age of eight that she would not be a puppet on a string, not a father's daughter. Elizabeth Rodenz reflects on how she observed the world around her and fought the injustices she encountered. An inspiring manifesto springs forth for women and men, with equal measures of spirit and soul.

With courage and compassion, Elizabeth explores controversial issues. Through thought-provoking analysis, she sheds light on the ways the acquired mind upholds traditional gender roles and thereby the patriarchy.

With a powerful and engaging voice, Elizabeth exposes the clandestine, venomous practices that keep both women and men oppressed and struggling, relegated to the shadows. Through provocative questions, readers will participate in a lively, thoughtful reflection of their own lives and the issues swirling around them.

With candor and wisdom, Elizabeth's call to action requires a dismantling of the acquired gender differences, a bonding together of both men and women of all ages, of all ethnicities. This call to action requires the soul and spirit and the compassion and courage of each of us to decimate the efforts of those who pummel and plunder our institutions, our cultures, our country, our world.

Part One of NOT A Father's Daughter begins with an intimate, unapologetic portrait of a girl growing up in a world that was trying to make her conform and bend or pretend. With precision and emotional honesty, Elizabeth traces a life shaped by a force that resided within her that she did not understand then. Yet, that force was compelling and would not allow her to bow down to the forces around her. She reveals how time and time again she cut the strings of the puppeteers that appeared. Her life becomes a universal story about identity and the quiet courage it takes to speak out and reject dictates and dogma.

In Part Two, Elizabeth provides the reader insight into how a mind can become acquired by the collective, the predators that can invade the mind, and the masks that are worn to please the collective. Realizing that she did not have the same desires as other women and that her desires did not conform to the collective's desires, through an explanation of archetypes, she delves into why all women do not desire the same things to the same degree. She also reveals the myth of viewing feminine and masculine behaviors as two distinct, separate categories, and how that fuels the conflict between men and women and dictates how they are to move in the world.

In Part Three Elizabeth reveals the tactics of the Sorrow Eaters and the patriarchy and its supporters. The clandestine methods used to fuel not only divisiveness in the world, but between men and women are exposed, and she does not hesitate to call out the perpetrators who are harming both men and women. She peels back for her readers the layers of family dictates and that of the collective. Elizabeth reveals what happens when the person meant to protect you becomes the source of some of your deepest wounds and exposes the clandestine methods used.

Integrating the previous sections of the book, in Part Four, Elizabeth provides guidance and asks the reader to take responsibility to chart the course of their life-not the life dictated to them, but the one they wish to live.