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Spurgas Alyson K |
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Diagnosing Desire : Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century / / Alyson K. Spurgas |
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The Ohio State University Press, 2020 |
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Columbus, Ohio : , : The Ohio State University Press, , 2020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment |
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Social Science / Women's Studies |
Social Science / Human Sexuality |
Social Science / Gender Studies |
Social sciences |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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