Uma viagem pela história da humanidade, desde o Paleolítico até os tempos atuais, mostrando a evolução das relações entre homens e mulheres. A autora mostra, nos primórdios da história, a mulher como rainha e soberana, num período em que a capacidade de procrias lhe conferia direitos e regalias superiores aos do homem. Este, por sua vez, demorou muito para impor sua presença; foi a necessidade da caça que lhe conferiu um poder quase absoluto. Isso se reproduziu ao longo dos séculos em quase todas as civilizações, impondo uma estrutura social, afetiva, intelectual e metafísica que só começou a mudar com a Revolução Francesa e a declaração de que todos os homens são iguais.

Man Woman the One Is the Other

Self-Help

Badinter, Élisabeth

Personal Transformation

Harvill

Examining mother love within a social, economic, religious, and psychological framework, this controversial study challenges the belief that mother love is a biologically determined instinct but is instead an evolutionary phenomenon

Mother Love

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Mother love: Myth and reality : motherhood in modern history

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated

Argues that gender differences in society are decreasing and that only old prejudices are causing friction between the sexes

The Unopposite Sex: The End of the Gender Battle (English and French Edition)

Harpercollins

Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability.

Columbia University Press

Examining changing role models for masculine identity--from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine--this book suggests that men need new role models and that sufficient room needs to be left for the expression of male vulnerability, a psychic space that would accept attitudes and behaviors traditionally labeled as "feminine." This new model, Badinter argues, may reduce the profound effects of homophobia and misogyny.

XY: On Masculine Identity

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Dead End Feminism

In this provocative new book, France's leading feminist theorist launches a broadside against the way in which feminism has evolved since the 1990s. After the victories of the previous decades, during which women had made some real advances in social and political life, a new sensibility began to emerge in the 1990s which led to a reversal in the hierarchy of values. The cult of victimhood has become widespread and has affected feminism. Women are viewed as defenceless and oppressed, social violence and sexual violence are treated as the same and a finger is pointed at the guilty one: man in all his guises. But by conflating real and false victims, feminism runs the risk of misunderstanding the battles that need to be waged and of losing all credibility with the younger generation, which doesn't see things see things this way. Preoccupied by putting men on trial, the feminism of the last few years has reactivated old stereotypes and left behind the very battles that have long been its raison d'etre - this, argues Badinter, is a dead end.   A huge bestseller in France, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relations between the sexes and our ways of thinking about sex and gender today.

Philosophy

Polity

In this provocative new book, France’s leading feminist theorist launches a broadside against the way in which feminism has evolved since the 1990s. After the victories of the previous decades, during which women had made some real advances in social and political life, a new sensibility began to emerge in the 1990s which led to a reversal in the hierarchy of values. The cult of victimhood has become widespread and has affected feminism. Women are viewed as defenceless and oppressed, social violence and sexual violence are treated as the same and a finger is pointed at the guilty one: man in all his guises. But by conflating real and false victims, feminism runs the risk of misunderstanding the battles that need to be waged and of losing all credibility with the younger generation, which doesn’t see things see things this way. Preoccupied by putting men on trial, the feminism of the last few years has reactivated old stereotypes and left behind the very battles that have long been its raison d’être – this, argues Badinter, is a dead end. 
A huge bestseller in France, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the changing relations between the sexes and our ways of thinking about sex and gender today.

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood
Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding―these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs―and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring―have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force.
In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered. She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche League―an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism―showing how on-demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers―one cause of the West's alarming decline in birthrate.
A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.

The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

Sociology

Metropolitan Books

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood
Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding―these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs―and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring―have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force. In sharp, engaging prose, Badinter names a reactionary shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered. She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche League―an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism―showing how on-demand breastfeeding, with all its limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt-laden mothers―one cause of the West's alarming decline in birthrate. A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.

The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

Picador

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Man Woman the One Is the Other

Mother Love

Mother love: Myth and reality : motherhood in modern history

The Unopposite Sex: The End of the Gender Battle (English and French Edition)

Xy

XY: On Masculine Identity

Dead End Feminism

Dead End Feminism

The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women