The Stronger Sex: Understanding and Resolving the Eternal Power Struggle Between Men and Women Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Opposite Sex
Part One: Love Means Resolving Conflict
Women As Sturdy Combatants
The Nature of Gender
Part Two: The Binds That Tie
Pursuers and Distancers
Expressers and Fixers
Part Three: The Mix and Mismatch of Sexual Interests
Imbalanced Sexual Interests
Wish Lists
The Politics of Pleasure
Fantasies
Part Four: Genuine Understanding
Soul Mates
Listen To Me!
Part Five: Where To from Here?
Surprisingly Chivalrous
What Changes and What Stays the Same?
Lust and Anger As Gender Follies
Gender Conflict at Work
Together We Stand
Recommended Reading
Notes
References
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Introduction
1. Snow Maidens and Silver Linden Trees
The Reality of Death
No One Lives Forever
How Do I Look?
The Snow Maiden
I Have Sent Them My Death
Baucis and Philemon
2. Vinegar and Beans
Accepting Life's Limits
The Aged Mother
We'll See
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle
The String Bean That Went Through the Roof of the World
The Hedley Kow
3. Snakes, Worms, and Rice Cakes
An Internal Shadow
What the Snake Had in Mind
How a Worm Destroyed a Tribe
The Old Woman and the Rice Cakes
4. Which Witch?
Relating to the Dark Feminine
The Owl
Frau Trude
The Witch's Shoes
Nyanbol
5. Spindles and Spiders
The Good Mother
Mother Holle
Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun
Rizpah
6. Islands and Falcons
The Masculine Within
Ariadne
Inanna
The Feather of Finist the Bright Falcon
7. A Golden Bird
The Search for Meaning
The Golden Bird
Epilogue
Index