Marie Robinson's The Power of Sexual Surrender explains that woman are presently at war with men because of Puritan "Victorian or feminist mothers" reaction to the "so-called Industrial Revolution, which was to change the whole fabric of society" especially the family home: The history I am going to tell you about is the history of a war, a bitter and destructive war. It is often called “The War between Men and Women.” For far too many women and men too—it is still going on. 71 It began toward the end of the eighteenth century, and the apparently innocent event that started it all was the invention of the steam engine by Watt—the great invention that ushered in the modern age. It seems hard to believe now that this almost outdated means of creating power could have been so important, but it was. It launched the so-called Industrial Revolution, which was to change the whole fabric of society, our ways of doing things and making things, our living quarters a...