"Unleashing Our Unknown SelveS" begins with a critique of
central paradigms in contemporary social science and ends with a
provocative new theory of psychosexual development. Dr. Morrow
brilliantly demonstrates why men are just as damaged as women by
our present patriarchal sex/gender system. . . . I highly recommend
it] as a primary text for graduate courses in human development,
psychology of gender, and cultural studies.
Joseph L. White, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and
Comparative Culture, University of California, Irvine
Described as a hopeful book, "Unleashing Our Unknown SelveS"
presents a new theory of psychosexual development and,
concurrently, of psychosocial evolution. France Morrow claims that
the sexual division of nature was a primordial organizing principle
for all cultures. However, evolving qualities and psychological
characteristics have been assigned by culture to women and men.
Real biological differences have, over millennia, been
incorporated, absorbed, or superceded by cultural differences. The
resultant schism between femininity and masculinity represents the
deepest cleavage in the human species, crippling both men and women
through the cultural subordination of women. Morrow believes that
to be truly whole, both sexes must be allowed to release the
repressed qualities of the opposite sex.
France MorroW's interdisciplinary focus finds hope in the
explanatory power of a theory which systematically explores the
crippling of both sexes by the cultural invisibility of women. The
book's chapters explore, among other subjects, the structure of
gender evolution, Sigmund Freud's impact on the future of
femininity and masculinity, and the internal repression of the
majority self. MorroW's study affirms the dependence of human
survival on the integrating of our feminine selves with our
masculine selves. Her work is particularly directed to courses in
developmental and social psychology, gender studies, sociology, and
women's studies.
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