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Has
the Sexual Revolution Completely Reconfigured the World?
Mary Eberstadt's new book, featuring
a foreword by the late Cardinal George Pell, addresses the revolution's
compounding effects on society, politics, and Christianity itself
NEWS PROVIDED BY
Carmel
Communications
Feb. 2, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2, 2023 /Christian
Newswire/ -- The sexual revolution, accelerated by widespread adoption of
the control pill in the 1960s, has had transformative effects on individuals and
families, as Mary Eberstadt masterfully addressed in ADAM AND EVE AND AFTER THE
PILL (Ignatius Press, 2012). While familial destruction, rage-filled protests
and confusion over sexual identity continue to tear at the fabric of the West,
Eberstadt now trains her empirical and logical prowess on the widest targets
possible. In her second, follow-on book, ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, REVISITED
(Ignatius Press, 2023), she examines in detail the revolution's radical
undermining of the three institutional pillars of Western life: society,
politics and churches themselves.
In perhaps the last work to be published by the late Cardinal George Pell, his
foreword to ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, REVISITED applauds Eberstadt's
"substantial empirical evidence for her central claim: the individual
atomization and familial collapse brought on by the revolution have gone on to
transform society and politics. They have also wounded the churches from within,
at times mortally."
ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, REVISITED deploys a broad range of statistical and
other evidence from entirely secular sources. Throughout, the numbers don't lie:
the sexual revolution that has proved disastrous on the microcosmic plane is now
proving equally destructive to social organization, including Christian
religious organization. This book connects as no other facts and figures from
across the social sciences to today's increasingly inescapable woes of divisive
politics, social dysfunction, and emptying churches consumed by enduring
religious civil war. Eberstadt also tackles the manifold meanings of the most
promising piece of potential rollback since the revolution's inception: the
Dobbs decision and its aftermath.
Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic
Information Center in Washington, D.C., and is a Senior Research Fellow at the
Faith and Reason Institute. She is an essayist, novelist and author of several
influential books, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of
Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution;
and the novel The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism.
"A brilliant and courageous book." – George Weigel, author of The Fragility of
Order and The Next Pope
"Essential reading...Mary Eberstadt is our most astute commentator on the vast
human costs of the sexual revolution" – R.R. Reno, editor of First Things
"[Eberstadt has] the acuity of a surgeon, the dexterity of an artist, and the
wisdom of a sage." – Erika Bachiochi, author of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming
a Lost Vision
For more information, to request a media review copy, or to schedule an
interview with Mary Eberstadt, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com) of Carmel Communications.
SOURCE Carmel Communications
CONTACT: Kevin Wandra, 404-788-1276,
KWandra@CarmelCommunications.com
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