Description |
xxiv, 424 pages ; 24 cm |
Note |
Originally published: Great Britain : Bloomsbury Pub., 1994. |
Bibliography |
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 -- |
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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. |
Subject |
Families -- 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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Families life surveys.
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ISBN |
0802115705 |
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9780802115706 |
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0802134513 |
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9780802134516 |
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