Word: adelson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have feminists got much mileage out of efforts to equate the marital bed with cultural prostitution. To characterize the married woman's life as prostitution, argues University of Michigan Psychologist Joseph Adelson, "denies tacitly our contemporary conception of female sexuality, one that sees it as mutual, in that the woman seeks as much as she gives." In these instances, Adelson says, Women's Lib returns to "the dark world of Victorian pornography...
...What generation gap?" asks University of Michigan Psychologist Joseph Adelson, who argues that "an overwhelming majority of the young?as many as 80%?tend to be traditionalist in values." Much evidence suggests that youth's politics and passions still largely reflect those of their parents. Even the most radical student protesters tend to act out the ideals of their politically liberal parents, who often approve the goals if not the tactics of their activist children. The biggest gap may be between different groups in the same generation. Collegians who pursue vocational courses like engineering seldom display the Weltschmerz that...