This is a brilliant, serious work of the kind we've needed for decades, and it's also entirely accessible, even winsome, in its prose. In examining human behavior in the post-liberation world, Eberstadt provocatively asks: Is food the new sex? Is pornography the new tobacco?Īdam and Eve after the Pill will change the way readers view the paradoxical impact of the sexual revolution on ideas, morals, and humanity itself. 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.Īdam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book has before the seismic social changes caused by the sexual revolution. 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. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim Sorokin, Carle Zimmerman, and others philosopher G.E.M. This ground-breaking book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread discontent. Perhaps nothing has changed life for so many, so fast, as the severing of sex and procreation. Secular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one of the most important milestones in human history.
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