by Suzanne Brøgger
Translated from the Danish by Thomas Teal
Deliver Us From Love
is a daring book because the author puts her theories into practice and
has the courage to reveal the results. When Suzanne Brøgger writes
about love, privacy, erotic fantasy, or sex roles, every idea is illustrated
by her personal experience. A chapter on rape, for instance, describes
her own gruesome encounter with Soviet police in Uzbekistan. Her book
is an attack on monogamy, which she calls "legalized cannibalism,"
and on Western concepts of love:
"What good is love, love between two people, if almost by definition
it excludes everyone else?" But it is also a blueprint for new forms
of tenderness, for honest sexuality, and enlightened ways of love.
Ms. Brøgger, a Danish radical and feminist, questions some of our
most cherished assumptions, the value of "private life," the
reasons people have children, the link between love and marriage. She
explores the outermost frontiers of sex: the incest taboo, and transvestites
as "guerrillas of the war between the sexes." Her audacious
and witty book will compel every reader to see the lives of men and women
in a new light.
A Radical Feminist Speaks Out