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The mermaid and the minotaur : sexual arrangements and human malaise / Dorothy Dinnerstein.

by Dinnerstein, Dorothy.

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New York : Other Press, ©1999.

Social structure.

1892746255 (paperback)

9781892746252 (paperback) :

xxxiii, 295 pages ; 21 cm

A Few Words on the Re-publication -- Pt. 1. The Mermaid and The Minotaur -- 1. Terms and Aims -- 2. The Human Project of Sexual Liberty -- Pt. 2. The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World -- 3. The Rocking of the Cradle -- Notes Toward Chapter 4 -- 4. Higamous-Hogamous -- Notes Toward Chapter 5 -- 5. "Children! Every One of Them!" -- Notes Toward Chapter 6 -- 6. "Sometimes You Wonder if They're Human" -- Notes Toward Chapter 7 -- 7. The Dirty Goddess -- Notes Toward Chapter 8 -- 8. The Ruling of the World -- Pt. 3. Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise -- Notes Toward Chapter 9 -- 9. Mama and the Mad Megamachine -- 10. At the Edge.

"Since its publication in 1976, Dorothy Dinnerstein's The Mermaid and the Minotaur has been recognized as one of the most important contributions to modern feminist thought. The book, translated into at least seven languages, is widely used in women's studies courses and is an influential text outside academia as well. Comparing Dinnerstein's book to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, one reviewer declared that this seminal essay not only belongs in "every feminist library" but in the "library of every well-educated person." In this work, Dinnerstein challenges the ideology underlying the female monopoly of childcare. A seminal feminist text, The Mermaid and the Minotaur brilliantly integrates feminist theory with Kleinian psychoanalytical theory."--Publisher's description.

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