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The Shere Hite Reader
Shere Hite
New and Selected Writings on Sex, Globalization and Private Life
Seven Stories Press
April 2003
560 pages
ISBN: 1583225684
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The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis
of the individual and society from a renowned thinker on
psychosexual development. The book includes new science in
addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's
three decades of work probing the roots of human identity.
Hite discusses new research on female adolescence,
challenging the "virgin" hymen concept and documenting the
fact that sexual awakening often precedes puberty. For the
first time, Hite formalizes her thinking on male
adolescence-that boys feel tortured by the new social role
they are forced to assume at puberty, which requires a show
of superiority toward females. In new detail, Hite advances
her understanding that sex is political, linking the
expectation that women achieve orgasm through coitus with
broader patterns of oppression. Hite also argues that
pornography misrepresents male (not to mention female)
sexuality, depicting it as singular and silly instead of
"full of intriguing, nuanced behavior involving the entire
body, not just the penis."
While Hite has published several books in Europe over the
past decade, The Shere Hite Reader represents her return to
print in the United States. The authoritative collection of
her work, The Shere Hite Reader challenges the reader to
embrace a new way of seeing.
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