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Author:	Katie Roiphe	Publisher:	Little Brown & Co
ISBN-10:	0316754390	Subject:	Health & Fitness
ISBN-13:	9780316754392	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1997	Condition:	Very Good
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An reexamination of sexual mores and the cultural perceptions of sexuality in America today. Roiphe, the author of "The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism", finds that the disappearance of traditional sexual taboos during the last 30 years have not only demystified sex but robbed it of much of its allure as well. Her argument is controversial rather than academic, and makes reference to popular films such as "Philadelphia" and "Savage Nights" in making its case.
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Editor:	Jordan Pavlin

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Length:	193 pages
Height:	9.0 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	12.8 oz.

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Last Night in Paradise is an eye-opening look at an age in which sexual liberation and one-night stands have been replaced by caution and fear. In the tradition of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Roiphe blends autobiography and cultural criticism to give us a vivid portrait of the sexual puritanism sweeping the nation. She also captures the shadowy sense of unease that lies behind a generation's search for safety and rules, and the national yearning for a new moral order to replace the social and religious structures we have lost. Here for the first time is the history, personal and cultural, of the most profound shift in our national life in the last three decades: the movement from a wild-eyed ethos of sexual freedom to the new conservative morality of the nineties. In prose as absorbing as a novel, Roiphe gives us the inner landscape of a generation that remembers where it was on the day Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive the way previous generations recall the day JFK was shot. We meet right-wing prophets of sexual abstinence in Washington, D.C., and public high school students and their teachers in suburban New Jersey. We enter the world of Alison Gertz, the Park Avenue debutante, and Magic Johnson, the ebullient point guard for the Lakers who boasted of satisfying six women at once, whose stories have imprinted themselves on the national imagination as moral parables for the uncertain and often terrifying age in which we live now.
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"Our culture's ambivalence toward limitless sexual freedom is the resonant theme of Ms. Roiphe's 'Last Night in Paradise'...To read Ms. Roiphe's essays is to take a tour of paradise through the eyes of the children who inherited it....In the end, Ms. Roiphe is at her best when articulating the inchoate anxieties of her generation, handed the keys to a culture that resembles a hotel room after a late-night debauch....In the morning after paradise, I look forward to hearing from Ms. Roiphe again." Wall Street Journal - Jennifer Grossman (03/12/1997) "In the battle between Thanatos and Eros--a battle that, Roiphe seems to believe, began circa 1981 with the discovery of AIDS--Thanatos is the decisive victor, and we all have become spinsters of the soul....'Last Night' is like an extended psychoanalytic session--full of wildly conflicting desires, romantic fantasies, projections and over-generalizations--without the analyst....'Late Night' may be, first and foremost, the 'cri de coeur' of a young, privileged woman who is finding out the hard way that she is not the center of anything and that the world will not automatically endow her every act with a sense of gravitas." Los Angeles Times Book Review - Susie Linfield (03/23/1997) "An insightful contribution to the national conversation on AIDS and sexuality--a conversation characterized too often by irrationality and unarticulated fears." Parker

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0316754390
Title : Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End
Authors : Katie Roiphe
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Little Brown & Co (T)
Publication Date : 1997-03-01
Pages : 193
List Price (MSRP) : 21.95
Height : 0.8000 inches
Width : 5.5000 inches
Length : 8.3000 inches
Weight : 0.7000 pounds
Keywords : General, Human, Contemporary, Marriage & Family, Culture
Condition : Very Good

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