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NEWS The Hite Research Foundation | News Columns | Books
The Hite Research Foundation is a charitable organization that would
aid women from all over the world in achieving their educational and career
goals. Contributions are tax deductible; membership
is available upon application. For more information, (click
here) Dr.Hite writes weekly and montly columns in major publications worldwide including in Spain, Germany, Italy, Sweden, China and Singapore. To view a selection of these articles please visit the article link on the left hand side of this page. Dr.Hites latest news columns:
BOOKS PUBLISHED 2001 - 2003 Hite Research books successfully challenge assumptions regarding the roles of women and men in business and private life, sexuality and emotions:
2000
SEX & BUSINESS Publishers of Sex
and Business include the Financial Times – Pearson (UK), Financial Times
– Prentice Hall (USA) CBS NEWS with Bryant Gumbel March 30 2000 In Sex and Business: Ethics in Sexuality in Business and the Workplace, she exposes the rules and attitudes men and women acquire socially, in an effort to dissipate the behavioral confusion between genders as more and more women make their presence known in an environment previously dominated by men. She includes among her interviewees, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the head of J. Rothschild Assurance, Mike Wilson and former chairman of media conglomerate Bertelsmann, Dr. Mark Wossner. more Les
Echos * 25 ans après le scandale du Rapport Hite, la nouvelle enquête de la figure de proue du féminisme sur le sexisme dans les entreprises more CLICK HERE for more Reviews 2000
THE HITE REPORT ON HITE Arcadia Books London Times March 16 2000 The Hite Report on Hite -Arcadia Books Speaking up for women has a high price. You might have expect Shere Hite to become a media darling. She had everything going for her; blond hair, beautiful face, model figure, impeccable academic qualifications, apparent confidence and she wrote about sex and relationships, more 2000
THE NEW HITE REPORT ON FEMALE SEXUALITY Hamlyn Books UK The original Hite Report on Female Sexuality is currently published by Dell (USA), Robert Laffont (France), Bompiani-Rizzoli (Italy), Living Psychology (China), Shodensha (Japan), Betrand (Brasil) and others.. New Scientist June 2000 How do you study sex? Stick electrodes on penises and vulvas? Place hidden cameras in people's bedrooms? DO face-to-face interviews with embarrassed subjects? Shere Hite should know. After all, she showed in her famous Hite Reports that the clitoris is more than a button. more Click Here for Archive information A New Emotional Landscape Some say ‘human nature’ is a fixed
phenomenon, that a new psychological-emotional landscape cannot be possible.
They point to the Athenian playwright Sophocles or to Shakespeare, saying
that their plays prove ‘Human nature has always been the same; all cultures
are the same, humans love, hate, are jealous, greedy and fear each other..’ Yet isn’t this merely lazy justification
of the status quo? Think of the antique (pre-sixth century) Greek myths
and how hard it is for us to understand some of the myths’ stories in
their original form. The archaeologist Marija Gimbutas has proposed a
world-view for ‘pre-history’ that is quite different from the standard
version ‘real-history-starts-with-the-Greeks, Sumerians-and-Egyptians’
– a history that extends 20,000 years further into the past, with a complex,
sophisticated and lively artistic tradition – and, in all probability,
a different emotional landscape. A new emotional landscape is possible,
even if one has never existed before. Myth
Psychology When you are born, you are offered a variety
of mythologies with which to write the scenario of your life. Which you
pick depends on various psychological factors built into your individual
situation and family (see Freud et al.) My work is trying to redesign the entire
package of available choices or mythologies on offer – not to re-write
psychology (though it is, in part). Is a completely different set of scenarios
possible? The four Hite Reports and this series
of articles try to question and redesign, re-imagine (on the basis of
measuring the counterpoint between what people say they experience and
what society says they should be experiencing, how they should interpret
their experiences), the repertoire of lives we can have: are there new
ways to interpret our experiences and emotions? Inside most of us, an intense battle
is raging between ‘traditional values’ and new beliefs. These beliefs
as yet have unclear shapes and names, so here we will try to name some
of them, turn a few sources on light on these new landscapes. Underwater
Frescoes of the Mind Can we make a new psychological-emotional
landscape? People often prefer to claim that they
have no myths; that myths are for more ‘stupid’ or ‘primitive’ people.
Yet underlying the social system studied by sociologists, and the emotions
studied by psychologists, lie myths of creation, myths of family, and
myths of heroic behaviour. These archetypes, currently unacknowledged
or called ‘instinct’, form the backdrop of our psyches and beliefs. At present, the myths are undergoing
change; a new psychological landscape is struggling to come into existence.
In order for this to happen, and to take a part in defining the new landscape,
it is important to understand these myths. Slowly, my work has been endeavouring
to discover the identity of some of these underwater ‘unconscious’ frescoes
in our minds – the backdrop to our psyches and emotions. Based on my research, I believe that
a completely different emotional-psychological landscape is now trying
to emerge. Part of our psychology has been resistant to change because
a hidden layer in the psyche, an identity behind our psychologies (often
mistakenly called ‘human-nature’), has not been analysed – which is what
my work is trying to do. This hidden layer is composed of all the myths
and stories that create the human emotional landscape as we know it. This
is the terrain we meet when we are born, that we learn to take as our
own. Naming this terrain will allow a new
landscape to emerge. Just as the early Greeks and Romans
saw themselves differently from the later Christians, we now see ourselves
differently yet again.
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