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  <title><![CDATA[Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body--New Paths to Power and Love]]></title>
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  <default-description>Riane Eisler shows us how history has consistently promoted the link between sex and violence--and how we can sever this link and move to a politics of partnership rather than domination in all our relations.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1995</original-publication-year>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Nov 06 02:22:00 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 02:05:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[¡Qué manera de echar a perder un trabajo! Este texto confirma el dicho… “Segundas partes nunca fueron buenas” Después del excelente y documentado trabajo que realizó en el primer tomo, Eisler toma la bandera de la feminista extrema y se dedica a criticar con argumentos modernos la vida de ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37017010">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[todo el mundo]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Apr 02 21:47:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Este libro es una de las grandes maravillas que he tenido oportunidad de leer este año; muy bien documentado, derrumbó bellamente un par de supuestos de los que yo partía para explicar la imposición de la teología androgénica-violenta sobre la adoración de la mujer y la perspectiva del sexo c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19241483">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone interested in sexuality]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Where to start!?<br/><br/>First of all, I really like the great care and thorough examination of sexuality from a historical perspective. Albeit, this examination applies primarily to Western civilization, the author's theory about prehistoric views of sex could have a much more universal applicat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4755428">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 09 15:35:49 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just got this book today (12/9), we'll see how it is - I was looking at &quot;The Chalice &amp; the Blade&quot; but this book seemed much more like what I was interested in.<br/><br/>Note: I returned the book on 12/14... too impulsive of a purchase :)  I'll find it at the library later.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[everybody should read this book so that they can understand how gender roles and all that nonsense came about and how we can change it. I loved it. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very different way to look at male/female sexuality that reflects a more equitable experience for partners]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a heavy, thorough but interesting read I had for my class on Human Sexuality]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing! Anyone who has sex should read this book!]]></body>
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