Sacred pleasure : sex, myth, and the politics of the body /
Eisler's absorbing epic exposes the truths about sex that have been swept under the rug of religious dogma and scientific jargon. Showing what has gone wrong between the sexes, it reveals a whole new history of intimate relations - and how these affect and are in turn affected by all our relati...
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| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, Calif.] :
HarperSan Francisco,
[1995]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- From ritual to romance : sexuality, spirituality, and society
- Animal rites and human choices : the roots of dominator and partnership sex
- Sex as sacrement : the divine gifts of life, love, and pleasure
- Sex and civilization : the early roots of Western culture
- From Eros to chaos : sex and violence
- The reign of the phallus : war, economics, morality, and sex
- The sacred marriage in a dominator world : the metamorphosis of sex, death, and birth
- The last traces of the sacred marriage : mysticism, masochism, and the human need for love
- From ancient to modern times : setting the stage
- Waking from the dominator trance : the revolution in consciousness and the sexual revolution
- Bondage or bonding : sex, spirituality, and repression
- Making love or making war : eroticizing violence
- Sex, gender, and transformation : from scoring to caring
- Getting out of Prince Charming's slipper : sex, femininity, and power
- Sex, lies and stereotypes : changing views of nature, the body, and truth
- Morality, ethics, and pleasure : sex and love in the age of AIDS
- Sex, power, and choice : redefining politics and economics
- Toward a politics of partnership : our choices for the future
- The new Eves and the new Adams : the courage to question, the will to choose, and the power to love.