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The Hite report on the family : growing up under patriarchy / Shere Hite.
Author
Hite, Shere
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Grove Press, 1995.
Description
xxiv, 424 pages ; 24 cm
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HQ518 .H57 1995
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Families
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Psychological aspects
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Patriarchy
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Parent and child
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Children and sex
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Sex (Psychology)
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Summary note
The Hite Report on the Family will cause you to rethink your childhood, your relationships, and quite possibly your life. It is a powerful and original analysis of the changing shape of private life, a profoundly optimistic and forward-looking answer to the dangerous nuclear-family-only nostalgia for the fifties that pervades the ongoing national debate on family values. Shere Hite has listened carefully to the real stories of real people and has developed a fascinating new framework for understanding growing up, based on first-person data rather than on a preconceived model or status quo. In this book, Hite becomes the first person to give theoretical legitimacy to all of the infinite ways that we live as "families," whether as single parents, as same-sex parents, in traditional family groups, or alone. In The Hite Report on the Family Hite challenges established views, arguing that the family is not collapsing but being democratized. Hite introduces a new theory of male eroticism by investigating why so many men and boys confuse sex and violence; she presents a lively new portrait of girls questioning their own sexual identity; and she confounds assumptions of a female "puberty" necessarily parallel to the male. Her questions are provocative and intimate: Do you know how your parents felt about having you? Did your father or mother look at pornography? At what age were your children closest to you? Do men raised by single mothers enjoy better relationships with women? Has children's respect for their mothers increased with the rise in single and employed mothers? With The Hite Report on the Family Shere Hite lights the way to understanding change in the family as the constructive result of choice - not as a moral crisis, but as a successful evolution toward private democracy
Notes
Originally published: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Pub., 1994.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. I. Memories of early childhood
1. The eroticism of the mother
Dream sequences of childhood
Memories of the mother's breasts, age six-twelve
The isolation of the body
When you're "too old" to be touched
Body intimacy in families
The family defines "sex" for the child (forbidden adult-child dialogues)
Archetypes of the mother
The mother as the erotic centre of the home
The taboo against women touching or being intimate
Mary the icon : clichés about mothers
Do parents own the child's body?
Mothers talk about their "sexual" feelings for their children
Sensuality, eroticism and sexuality in the family
2. Violent physical intimacy
The construction of sexuality and eroticism through spanking and physical punishment
Love-hate for parents
Punishment, discipline and the definition of love
Spanking and sado-masochism
The influence of spanking and beating on fantasies
The hierarchical psyche ; Spanking and sexuality
What does the physical assault mean?
Sexual abuse of girls
Afterword.
pt. IV. Democratization of the family : a Renaissance for the West
A democratic revolution in the family
Towards a new theory of the psycho-sexual development of children
The "holy family" of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
The psyche of patriarchy : a new way of seeing how we group up : results of this study
History and theory of the family : personal and political
An authoritarian family does not support a democratic political system
The political history of the family
The family is a political institution
The politics of female sexuality in the family
Isn't the family a "natural", biological institution?
The family creates human nature
The rights of the child in a democratized family
Children need choices
Alternative homes for children
Thirty-three million "street children" : where is their home?
The cult of the "holy family" in twentieth-century psychoanalysis
Why psychologizing the family doesn't work
Definitions of love and power
Emotional categories created by patriarchy
Love and power between parents and children
Does "love" include sex? The body?
Inequality between mothers and fathers : is this "love"?
Love lost and making the wrong decisions
New families, building bridges
Single parent families
Democracy of the heart : a new politics for the twenty-first century-- Moving to the future of family and society with a more mature view
Hite research questionnaire on the family.
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ISBN
0802115705
9780802115706
LCCN
94042157
OCLC
31656098
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