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Shere Hite's groundbreaking Hite Reports have had a profound and lasting influence. 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 US citizenship in 1996 to become German. The four Hite Reports, showing an increasing depth to her controversial theories, received numerous academic and professional awards and honours. The initial Hite Report was named as one of the 100 key books of the twentieth century

Over fifty years ago, Alfred Kinsey shook the world with his report, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male. Now distinguished researcher and social iconoclast Shere Hite rocks it further still with a wide-ranging and uninhibited scrutiny of men today. Drawing upon evidence derived from over 7,000 interviews, Hite overturns traditional psychiatric notions of the Oedipus myth to reveal how society demands not only that the growing boy be separated from his mother but that he aggressively rejects and ridicules her as well. She then goes on to reveal how the pain of this sharp revision is the

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 such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Ellen de Generis 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. The various Hite Reports (on Female and Male Sexuality, the Family, and Sex and Bu

Shere Hite, die die Sexualforschung des letzten Vierteljahrhunderts maßgeblich beeinflußt und mitgestaltet hat (ihre seit 1976 erscheinenden Hite-Reports erzielten weltweit Millionenauflagen), legt hier ihre eigenwillige Autobiographie vor - eine Meisterleistung auf dem Gebiet der psychologischen Selbstanalyse. (Verlagstext)

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 : clich(c)♭s 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 ---