The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise
by Dorothy Dinnerstein
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"A seminal text in the womenís movement." –Ethel S. Person, author of The Sexual Century "Still the most important work of feminist psychoanalytic exploration, its re-release is a celebratory occasion." –Eli Sagan, author of Freud, Women and Mortality "[The Mermaid and the Minotaur] continues to astonish us with the depth and wisdom of its psychoanalytic approach even as its major ideas have become as unobtrusively essential to psychoanalytic feminism as the atmosphere." –Jessica show more Benjamin, author of The Bonds of Love show lessTags
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inequality blamed on adult resentment of female domination in infancy, psychoanalytical, few practical suggestions.
The seminal work on feminism, gender-free child-rearing, and humans evolving beyond gender limitations
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Dorothy Dinnerstein was born in a poor Jewish section of the Bronx, New York, in 1923. As a psychologist, she worked with such luminaries as Wolfgang Khler, Max Wertheimer, and Solomon Asch. She was a distinguished professor of psychology at Rutgers University for thirty years and lived in New Jersey until her death in a car accident in 1992.
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- Alternate titles
- The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World
- Original publication date
- 1976
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.41 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- BF692.2 .D56 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior
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- Dutch, English, German, Swedish
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