Intimate Relations: The Natural History of Desire

By Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot

In their previous book, The Way Men Think, Liam Hudson and Bernadine Jacot explored the dislocation experienced by all male children as they separate from their mothers and identify with their fathers. This book focuses on the experience of women and the way they relate to men. As they grow up, small girls are not wounded like their brothers, but nonetheless acquire a burden (or incubus) that distorts their perception of intimacy. For reasons intrinsic to their development, the book argues, women will find all heterosexual relationships troubling.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300062931
• ISBN13: 9780300062939
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"