Women and Love: Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change. Selected Essays in Psychology and Gender. Hite Reports : 1973-1993

For twenty years Shere Hite has been conducting ground-breaking research into the personal lives of women and men, From her conclusions she has formulated philosophical guidelines which have initiated and enlightened debates about sexuality, love marriage, autonomy, friendships between women, male psychology, the family and our very culture in a time of radical change.

From the first Hite Report, which presented a new theory of female sexuality— one defined by women themselves and not imposed by the vagaries of Freud, patriarchy or Masterns and Johnson— to her celebrated psychosexual investigations of men and her latest analysis of the emotions surrounding love as women describe them, Shere Hite is consistently eloquent and challenging. She takes the pulse of individuals, astonishing numbers of them, and on the basis of wide-ranging research formulates her theories.

To read this outstanding distillation of Hite's writings is to see the continuing impact of her prodigious work over two decades and, at the same time, to be taken to the cutting edge of the current debate on sexual politics in our culture.

Shite Here (1993). Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change: Selected Essays in Psychology and Gender 1972-1993. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. Softcover. viii+438p. ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-1377-3.