A female"s guide to taking charge of finance and prosperity * Counsels women to overcome their fears of risk and shatters myths on their incapacity to manage finance * Gets down to the brass tacks of financial management and investment and offers women practical advice on how to draw up their own financial plan * Shows readers how to recognize and avoid consumer marketing specifically directed at women This book is for every woman, single or married, who wants to face up to her fears, break through the conventional myths about money, and take charge of her financial life. In The Money Mystique, financial consultant Karen Sheridan invites women to explore the crippling assumptions they have internalized about money, stop allowing emotions to rule their spending, and take full responsibility for achieving true financial independence.