Format:
ix, 272 pages
ISBN:
9780814257692
,
9780814214510
,
0814214517
Series Statement:
Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment
Content:
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.
Content:
"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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Spurgas, Alyson K., - 1981- Diagnosing desire Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780814280751
Language:
English
Keywords:
Frau
;
Sexualverhalten
;
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