ISBN:
9780814257692
,
9780814214510
,
0814214517
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 272 pages
Series Statement:
Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Spurgas, Alyson K., - 1981- Diagnosing desire
DDC:
306.7082
Keywords:
Sexual desire disorders
;
Women Sexual behavior
;
Femininity
;
Sex therapy
;
Frau
;
Sexualverhalten
;
Weiblichkeit
Abstract:
Sexual difference and femininity in sex therapy and sex research: examples from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries -- Interest, arousal, and motivation in contemporary sexology: the feminization of responsive desire -- Women-with-low-desire: navigating and negotiating sexual difference socialization -- Embodied invisible labor, sexual carework: the cultural logic and affective valorization of responsive female desire -- Reclaiming receptivity: parasexual pleasure in the face of compulsory and feminized trauma.
Abstract:
"Examines how low female desire is produced, embedded, and lived within neoliberal capitalism. Rethinks 'femininity' by investigating sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire, and new models for understanding women's sexual response"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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