"Finally, a definitive study that debunks one of Freud's most damaging myths--that women are inherently masochistic--...offers healthier ways...to view female b

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critic

The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which s