The Unopposite Sex: The End of the Gender BattleHarper & Row, 1989 - 279 pages The current sexual revolution has roots that go back a long way. With less reliance on physical strength and more on intelligence, sexual identity has been blurred. Badinter looks at the interaction of the sexes since the beginning of human society. |
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Page xi
... patterns of men and women in the West . Whereas in other parts of the world one notices a deliberate return to the old values , the industrialized world of the West constitutes a bloc united by similar and accelerated upheavals . These ...
... patterns of men and women in the West . Whereas in other parts of the world one notices a deliberate return to the old values , the industrialized world of the West constitutes a bloc united by similar and accelerated upheavals . These ...
Page 205
... pattern , each couple now follows the anarchical disorder of its own desires . They can choose their own rhythm , work out the successive stages of their progress as a couple without reference to any social arbitration , for no one else ...
... pattern , each couple now follows the anarchical disorder of its own desires . They can choose their own rhythm , work out the successive stages of their progress as a couple without reference to any social arbitration , for no one else ...
Page 239
... pattern is very different . She normally feels five to eight major contractions and then nine to fifteen minor ones , and they diffuse throughout the entire pelvic area . But for her , sex may have just begun . Unlike her mate , her ...
... pattern is very different . She normally feels five to eight major contractions and then nine to fifteen minor ones , and they diffuse throughout the entire pelvic area . But for her , sex may have just begun . Unlike her mate , her ...
Contents
FROM FEMININE ASCENDANCY TO SHARED POWERS | 31 |
The One Without the Other 3332 | 53 |
God the Father | 60 |
Copyright | |
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