I began to turn my attention directly to what I experienced, what I liked, what excited me, what satisfied me setting aside all previous judgments, expectations, and demands. - Julie Henderson, The lover within, 3-9
Erotics: suggested reading
Chernin Kim, Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
- A radical reinterpretation of the story of the biblical Eve. In daring to break the taboo and eat the apple, in choosing to inhabit her body and its desires in defiance of father law, Eve can be seen as a model for modern woman. Chernin treats related themes in both The Tyranny of Slenderness and The Obsession, both about women, hunger, and body image. (LW)
Doubiago Sharon 1995 When Elvis came to San Diego San Diego Reader November 2, 1995
Henderson Julie 1986/1987 The lover within: opening to energy in sexual practice, Station Hill Press.
- Henderson's book is ostensibly about sex but is actually about tantric energetics, "my increasing systemic capacity for charge, pulsation and pleasure." "I began to turn my attention directly to what I experienced, what I liked, what excited me, what satisfied me setting aside all previous judgments, expectations, and demands." She is unusually clear and unflakey, has a PhD. The book is hard to find but Amazon has it. (EE)
Lorde Audre, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1984. 53-59.