| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) |
| Series |
Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment |
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Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
Sexual desire disorders.
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Women -- Sexual behavior.
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Femininity.
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Sex therapy.
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Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological
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Social Science -- Women's Studies.
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Social Science -- Human Sexuality.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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Femininity
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Sex therapy
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Sexual desire disorders
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Women -- Sexual behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814214510 |
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0814214517 |
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9780814280751 |
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0814280757 |
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9780814280751 |
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