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Author Cacchioni, Thea, 1976- author.

Title Big pharma, women, and the labour of love / Thea Cacchioni
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015
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Contents Preface : testifying at the US Food and Drug Administration -- Introduction : the labour of love in the sexual pharmaceutical era -- The rise and decline of big pharma's "sexual revolution" -- Treating women's sexual pain : biomedicalized, demedicalized, and do-it-yourself approaches -- The limits of normative heterosex -- Sex work : a labour of love -- Refusing heteronormative sex work -- A woman's work is never done -- Epilogue : the sexual pharmaceutical industry and its discontents
Summary Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects
Women -- Sexual behavior.
Women -- Drug use
Sexual disorders -- Treatment
Women.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Psychosexual disorders -- Treatment.
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological -- drug therapy
Women
Drug Industry
Sexual Behavior -- drug effects
Sociological Factors
Women's Health
women (female humans)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Women's Health.
Women -- Health and hygiene
Women
Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical industry -- Social aspects
Sexual disorders -- Treatment
Women -- Drug use
Women -- Sexual behavior
Läkemedelsindustri -- sociala aspekter.
Kvinnlig sexualitet.
Sexualliv -- genusaspekter.
Sexuella funktionsstörningar -- behandling.
Sexuella funktionsstörningar -- genusaspekter.
Läkemedelsterapi -- genusaspekter.
Läkemedelsanvändning -- genusaspekter.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442694101
1442694106