Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex

248 Pages·1986·7.777 MB·English

by  Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria Jacobs

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Trie FEMINIZATION OF
BARBARA EHRENREICH,
ELIZABETH HESS,
GLORIA JACOBS
REMAKINb
LOVE
BARBARA EHRENREICH,
ELIZABETH HESS,
AND GLORIA JACOBS
The fashionable complaint of the early
eighties was that the sexual revolution
was a failure, and that sex itself was
dead. Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth
Hess, and Gloria Jacobs argue that
there has been a genuine revolution
in sexual attitudes and that it was
initiated by women—not men. Re¬
making Love shows how the sexual
revolution has transformed not only our
behavior, but our deepest understand¬
ing of sex and its meaning in our lives.
This book takes a look at how this
once anonymous women’s sexual rev¬
olution has transformed sexual prac¬
tices in bedrooms across the coun¬
try—even in unexpected places like
Christian fundamentalist homes or the
back rooms of S/M bars.
Re making Love opens with an
enlightening analysis of the repressive
sexual mores of the fifties that led to
widespread sexual dissatisfaction—and
hence, the outburst of sexual experi¬
mentation we have all witnessed. Draw¬
ing on personal interviews and a wide
variety of sources from popular culture,
the book goes on to map the current
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RE-MAKING LOVE
Also by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the
Flight from Commitment
By Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Advice to Women
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women
Healers
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of
Sickness
RE-MAKING
LOVE
The Feminization of Sex
Barbara Ehrenreich,
Elizabeth Hess,
Gloria Jacobs
ANCHOR PRESS/DOUBLEDAY
GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
1986
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ehrenreich, Barbara.
Re-making love.
Bibliography: p. 217.
Includes index.
1. Women—United States—Sexual behavior.
2. Sex customs—United States. 3. Feminism—United
States. 4. Sex (Psychology) I. Hess, Elizabeth.
II. Jacobs, Gloria. III. Title.
HQ29.E35 1986 306.7'088042 86-2074
ISBN 0-385-18498-0
Copyright © 1986 by Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess, Gloria Jacobs
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To our children—Alexa, Gideon, Kate,
Rosa, and Benjy—
and to the memory of Betty Ann Colhoun.