{"product_id":"the-shere-hite-reader-isbn-9781583225684","title":"The Shere Hite Reader","description":"The Shere Hite Reader presents wide-ranging analysis on the individual and society from a renowned thinker on psychosexual development. The book includes new science in addition to previously published material, reflecting Hite's three decades of work probing the roots of human identity through questionnaires and theory.\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time Hite formalizes her thinking on male adolescence, that boys feel tortured by the new social role they are forced to assume at puberty requiring a show of superiority toward females. In new detail Hite advances her understanding that sex is political, linking the expectation on women to achieve orgasm through coitus with broader patterns of oppression. Hite discusses new research on female adolescence, challenging the \"virgin\" hymen concept, and documenting that sexual awakening often precedes puberty. Hite also argues that pornography misrepresents male sexuality (not to mention female sexuality), depicting it as singular and silly instead of \"full of intriguing, nuanced behavior involving the entire body, not just the penis.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe authoritative collection of her work, The Shere Hite Reader challenges the reader to a new way of seeing.SHERE HITE, one of the great feminists and cultural anthropologists of our time, is internationally recognized for her work on psychosexual behavior and gender relations. Hite has lectured at universities around the world including the Sorbonne, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and others. Hite also writes regularly for international newspapers and journals. Director of the National Organization for Women’s feminist sexuality project from 1972 to 1978, since that time she has directed Hite Research International. Her continuing study of sexual behavior includes major new discoveries on, for example, male sexuality, teen sexuality, and the relationship of sexuality to globalization. \u003ci\u003eThe Hite Report\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1976, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304147112165,"sku":"NP9781583225684","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781583225684.jpg?v=1767741498","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-shere-hite-reader-isbn-9781583225684","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}