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The Hite report on the family : growing up under patriarchy / Shere Hite.

By: Hite, Shere.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 1994Description: xxiv, 424 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0747514801.Subject(s): Families -- Psychological aspects | Patriarchy | Parent and child | Children and sex | Sex (Psychology) | Family life surveysDDC classification: 306.85
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I: Memories of early childhood -- The eroticism of the mother -- Violent physical intimacy -- Part II: Growing up female: why no daughter icon? -- Girls' secret sexuality and identity age five-twelve -- The split self: Girls' new sexual identity outside the family age ten-nineteen -- Mothers and daughters: lovers and strangers -- Girls and fathers -- Part III: Growing up male: the mysterious meaning of the game -- Boys learn to be "men" -- Leaving the mother -- Eroticism and betrayal of the mother -- Boys discover sexuality age ten-nineteen -- Boys and their father: distance and longing -- Part IV: Democratization of the family: a renaissance for the west.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 306.85 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00034046
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This report considers contemporary family life, observing that many families no longer fit the model for successful family life. Does this mean that the family is in crisis? Or are the cracks in its structure symptoms of the need for more democracy in the family and a radical new attitude towards sex and intimacy?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Memories of early childhood -- The eroticism of the mother -- Violent physical intimacy -- Part II: Growing up female: why no daughter icon? -- Girls' secret sexuality and identity age five-twelve -- The split self: Girls' new sexual identity outside the family age ten-nineteen -- Mothers and daughters: lovers and strangers -- Girls and fathers -- Part III: Growing up male: the mysterious meaning of the game -- Boys learn to be "men" -- Leaving the mother -- Eroticism and betrayal of the mother -- Boys discover sexuality age ten-nineteen -- Boys and their father: distance and longing -- Part IV: Democratization of the family: a renaissance for the west.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Shere Hite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri on November 2, 1942. She was an American-born German sex educator, researcher, and a feminist. She was a graduate of the University of Florida with a master's degree in history. Her work has focused primarily on female sexuality. She is best known for her book The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, published in 1976. It challenged the sexual status quo and defied male dominance. She renounced her U. S. citizenship in 1995 as a result of being highly criticized personally and for her work. She lived in Europe and eventually settled in north London.

Her books include Sexual Honesty, by Women, For Women (1974); The Hite Report on Female Sexuality (1976, 2004); The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (1981); Women and Love: A Cultural Revolution in Progress (The Hite Report on Love, Passion, and Emotional Violence) (1987); Fliegen mit Jupiter (English: Flying with Jupiter) (1993); The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy (1994); The Hite Report on Shere Hite: Voice of a Daughter in Exile (2000) (autobiography); The Shere Hite Reader: New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalization and Private Life (2006).

Shere Hite died on September 9, 2020 at the age of 77 in Tottenham, London, England.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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