Why is one marriage out of two today doomed to end in divorce? My interviews with 71 divorced women searched for answers. Did they love their husbands when they married? Did they believe at the time that it was 'till death do us part'? Were there other lovers in the lives of the couple at the time of the divorce? Is there any connection between an unhappy childhood and a failed marriage? Do women tend to lose their identities in marriage? To my surprise, I saw the majority of interviews take on a similar shape, which revealed who the women were and how the divorces fit into the pattern of their lives. In my years of practice as a psychoanalyst, I saw how badly people need others with whom to identify. With this collection, divorcees can see their own fears, despair, grief, hopes, and aspirations reflected in the lives of women passing through similar experiences. I hope the fact that all the subjects came away from their divorces with greater strength, insight, and self-esteem will serve as an inspiration to all survivors of loss and pain. As Queen Isabella said in Henry V, "Happily, a woman's voice may do some good."

Every troubled couple has had it up to here with self-help books explaining how to make relationships work. This one addresses why they don't-and frankly, why some of them never will. In this unique and illuminating he said/she said guide to avoiding love-gone-wrong, 21 real-life couples spill it to widely-read advice columnist Sherry Amatenstein. What better way to make a relationship last than to learn from the ones that didn't?

Text Loving focuses on the everyday issues that we face in different types of relationships whether it is on an intimate level or friendship level. I have learned a lot about people and how they are in different relationships and situations while writing this book. We sometimes may not know exactly what one may think of the other. Sometimes we may say things we don't mean or do things to hurt each other deliberately. We are quick to point fingers without owning up to our mistakes instead of taking the fall. But who am I to judge? I only speak on the things I see and hear. As I sat down to write this book, I had a lot of anxieties and fears because of the possible backlash that I may get from people in general. There are many things that I discussed in this book that people may not like because I may be revealing the fucked-up person they really are. Then you may also have the ones that will agree because they can relate. For what it's worth, as time went by, I overcame those fears and anxieties because I felt like it was more important to get the truth out there and open your eyes to what is going on around you on an everyday basis.

Throughout the history of man we have been faced with many a dilemma. One that has been consistent since Adam and Eve, Samson and Delilah, Mark Anthony and Cleopatra, Ike and Tina!!!, is our inability as the dominant sex to understand WOMEN. We have conquered civilizations, created ships to take us to the stars, created the internet to make the world we live in that much smaller to bring them that much closer... But still this understanding escapes us. This book, based on life experiences that I have lived, been privy too and have been exposed too IS that manual, that guide, that leg up into the minds of the fairer sex that we have all hoped would come to pass within our lifetime! After this and you are still out there floundering around in the wind....hopeless and confused. You may just need tp GET OUT THA GAME!!! Seriously the intent is to help us men do better. We often choose the wrong women and these choices cost us money, time, arrest records and the ability to successfully co-parent our children. LIFE IS SHORT and these wrong choices can make it even shorter. So READ it, USE it, and UNDERSTAND IT...

Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer on hysteria, J.A. Symonds and Havelock Ellis on sexuality, a novel by Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad, The Waste Land of T.S. Eliot (and Ezra Pound), even the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge: men making books together. Wayne Koestenbaum's startling interpretation of literary collaboration focuses on homosexual desire: men write together, he argues, in order either to express or to evade homosexual feelings. Their writing becomes a textual intercourse, the book at once a female body they can share and the child of their partnership. These man-made texts steal a generative power that women's bodies seem to represent. Seen as the site of a struggle between homosexual and homophobic energies, the texts Koestenbaum explores – works of psychoanalysis, sexology, fiction, and poetry – emerge as more complex, more revealing. They crystallize and refract the anxiety of male sexuality at the end of the last century, and open up a deeper understanding of connections today between the erotic and the literary. Drawing upon the work of feminist critics, Koestenbaum connects male collaboration and the exchange of women within patriarchy: he peers into both medical texts and imaginative literature, disturbing our ready acceptance of the co-authored work. This strong and unsettling book transforms our understanding of the creative process, providing a new sense of what both collaborative and solitary artistry mean.

This set brings together a collection of classic out-of-print works that offer some surprising new takes on the theme of sexuality in literature. Whether examining new spaces by unrepresented women writers of colour or looking afresh at gay writings of the early twentieth century, this set presents a thought-provoking take on the subject, and as such is an essential reference source.