Shere Hite

In this latest Hite Report, Dr Hite examines friendship and work relationships between women. She explores various definitions of such friendships (what are the limits, does it include sex?) and sets these in their historical, societal and family contexts. And with high profile media stars very publicly exploring the nature of female friendship and women everywhere questioning its nature, Dr Hite's extensively researched findings couldn't be more timely.

"Shere Hite's ground-breaking Hite Reports have had a profound and lasting influence on generations of readers - countless millions all over the world. Hite writes here for the first time about growing up in rural Missouri, the early feminist movement, her private life and sexual identity. She left America to live in Europe because of a fundamentalist political backlash, renouncing her U.S. citizenship in 1996 to become German." "Hite's initial research grew out of her involvement with a feminist group in New York, and it was with the publication of The Hite Report on Female Sexuality in 1976 that she shot to international acclaim."--Jacket.

Recently published to much acclaim in England, these reflective essays by Shere Hite reveal and explore the methodological and philosophical import of the famous Hite Reports on male and female sexuality and love and include extensive excerpts from the reports themselves. To read this outstanding distillation of Hite's writings is to see the continuing impact of her prodigious work over two decades, to hear her views on the issues facing women as agents of social change, and to be taken to the cutting edge of current debates on sexual politics.

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.

Summarizes the responses of over 3000 American women to the NOW sexuality questionnaire, which aimed to discover how women feel about a variety of sexual topics.

Oedipus Revisited has been 10 years in the making and looks at all aspects of male sexuality today - including alternative ways of love-making other than penetrative sex. It examines how today's male relates to his partner/s and to work relationships too. The metrosexual male and gay man's lifestyles are also explored in depth. This latest Hite report, as controversial as all the others, provides a blueprint for the 21st century.

Refonte de la version parue en 1975 sur la sexualité féminine, avec de nouvelles interviews, un point sur la situation actuelle ...