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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476836603321

Autore

Spurgas Alyson K

Titolo

Diagnosing Desire : : Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century / / Alyson K. Spurgas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus, Ohio : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-8142-8075-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment

Disciplina

306.7082

Soggetti

Social Science / Women's Studies

Social Science / Human Sexuality

Social Science / Gender Studies

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sexual Difference and Femininity in Sex Therapy and Sex Research: Examples from the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First Centuries -- Chapter 2 Interest, Arousal, and Motivation in Contemporary Sexology: The Feminization of Responsive Desire -- Chapter 3 Women-with-Low-Desire: Navigating and Negotiating Sexual Difference Socialization -- Chapter 4 Embodied Invisible Labor, Sexual Carework: The Cultural Logic and Affective Valorization of Responsive Female Desire -- Chapter 5 Reclaiming Receptivity: Parasexual Pleasure in the Face of Compulsory and Feminized Trauma -- Conclusion The Freedom to Fall Apart: Feminine Fracturing and the Affective Production of Gendered Populations -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- Series Page.

Sommario/riassunto

In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the "new science of female sexuality" from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today's feminist-identified sex researchers study and manage women with low desire. Diagnosing Desire investigates experimental sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female



desire, new models for understanding women's sexual response, and cutting-edge treatments for low desire in women-including from the realms of mindfulness and alternative healing.