Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Dudevant attempted to compromise, trying to read the books she offered him, but he invariably fell asleep. They experimented with a modified open marriage. She wouldn't complain about his whores if he would allow her intellectual, though not initially sexual, freedom. In this way, Barry suggests, she tried to make her marriage, which she was not yet willing to abandon, more fulfilling...
Thus the book is marred--but far from ruined. Ideology exists without a proper context, Barry's conceptions of feminism, sexual roles and "androgynous minds" may occasionally rankle a feminist reader. His effort to prove his sympathy for feminist causes sometimes backfires, making him sound overbearing instead. But these moments are rare. For the most part, Infamous Woman is both a scholarly and an enjoyable book. Barry admirably portrays the complex woman who wrote shortly before her death, "I am still a troubadour) who believes in love, in art, in the ideal, and sings his song while the world jeers...
...does mistreatment of women stimulate sales in a predominantly female market? Some scholars think that fantasies of abuse appeal to many women. A 1974 survey indicates that perhaps half of American women have sexual fantasies of being overpowered by men and forced to surrender. And some analysts report that strong, independent women often produce masochistic fantasies as a compensation for succeeding in a man's world. "There has been a great rise, in women's sexual fantasies, of perceiving themselves as victimized," says Psychiatrist Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse. "If you pursue your independence in an antagonistic way, you will...
...epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold...
...bright, healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...