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The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does "sexuality" come into being, and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life more generally? In answering these questions, the author disputes many of the dominant interpretations ofâŚ
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This book from the early 1990s continues to speak volumes about society today. In completely accessible writing, it helped me to see how major historical developments (the spread of democracy and belief in human equality) occur in tandem with peopleâs daily lives (marriages that pursue the ideal of âdemocracy in intimacyâ).
Couples who pursue âpure relationshipsâ founded on sexual and emotional equality are doing something revolutionaryâin a revolution that has been gathering momentum for over two centuries. Each of Anthony Giddensâs chapters illuminates different aspects of this large story, and each gave me insights into what it means to beâŚ
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