The Hite Report on the Family

by ShereHite (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $5.31

  This report considers contemporary family life, observing that many families no longer fit the model for successful family life. Does this mean that the family is in crisis? Or are the cracks in its structure symptoms of the need for more democracy in the family and a radical new attitude towards sex and intimacy? This book looks into psycho-sexual identity within the nuclear family and aims to provide a new perspective to the debate. Men and women, teenage boys and girls, answer the Hite questionnaire and reveal their experiences of family life. Hite draws on these results to make her conclusions about lives inside family walls. The book details the subjects of: sensuality, eroticism and the boundaries of physical intimacy; parents attitudes to their children's developing sexuality; learning masculinity and femininity ; erotic undercurrents in parent-child relationships; violent physical intimacy and its link with sexuality; and physic loyalties and betrayals between parents and children.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $9.71

  Reveals the state of psycho-sexual identity within the nuclear family, and brings a new perspective to current debate on the subject. The report draws on over 3000 completed questionnaires to reach shocking and far-reaching conclusions about the family's effect on our sexuality and our ability to love. The individuals who answered the intensive Hite questionnaire speak intimately about their childhood, the development of their sexuality and their relationship with their parents.