Women and love

Author's name: Sher Haydar Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 1997 Literary classification: Literary articles About the book: Sher Haydar is a researcher and a well-known author worldwide. She translated her first two published books into thirteen languages. She is married and lives in New York. Ten years ago, the report published by Sher Haydar demolished the myths related to women's sexual life. Subsequently, Haydar addressed the sexual life of men. This new report is a synthesis of her previous works, and at the same time, it examines the contemporary woman's view of love and married life. This is the first major work about women since what the feminist movement has represented, even with its exaggerations and excesses, when four thousand five hundred women from all social backgrounds and ages honestly and intimately spoke about the truths of their lives with men, many of which had remained hidden. The words of the women Sher Haydar spoke to—remarkably—revealed the nature of unsatisfactory relationships they have with their husbands or lovers, and their statements indicated what they saw as the causes of these situations and the solutions that could be offered for treatment. It clearly shows, for the first time in history, how women not only criticize their relationships with men but also doubt even the definitions of love they were taught and accepted. They need to better define their place in society, find a role that is neither dependent nor content with the reality and harmony with it, and not live a life that exhausts them. Thus, it will be possible to establish relationships between women and men that allow both genders to integrate together into the social world.