num_pages: 175
description: Secular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one of the most important milestones in human history. Perhaps nothing has changed life for so many so fast as the severing of sex and procreation. But what has been the result?This ground-breaking book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread discontent. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim Sorokin Carle Zimmerman and others; philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe and novelist Tom Wolfe; and a host of feminists food writers musicians and other voices from across today's popular culture Eberstadt makes her contrarian case with an impressive array of evidence. Her chapters range across academic disciplines and include supporting evidence from contemporary literature and music women's studies college memoirs dietary guides advertisements television shows and films.Adam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book has before the seismic social changes caused by the sexual revolution. In examining human behavior in the post-liberation world Eberstadt provocatively asks: Is food the new sex? Is pornography the new tobacco?Adam and Eve after the Pill will change the way readers view the paradoxical impact of the sexual revolution on ideas morals and humanity itself.
language: English
title: Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution
publisher: Ignatius Press