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This book is odd. On one level, it is a brilliant feminist text without hitting the reader over the head about feminism. On another level, it seems to wander around from subject to subject, analyzing a number of literary sources, from Greek Myth to the Diary of Anne Frank to Shakespeare. Unsure of what the overall point really is, but some interesting reading... The title refers not only to pleasure, the feeling of joy and happiness, but Pleasure, the daughter of Psyche and Cupid, in the myth of the woman who fell in love with love. "Democracy rests on the idea of equality in which everyone has a voice. Patriarchy, although frequently misinterpreted to mean the oppression of women by men, literally means a hierarchy-a rule of priests-in which the priest, the hieros, is a father.