Diagnosing desire : biopolitics and femininity into the twenty-first century / Alyson K. Spurgas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spurgas, Alyson K., 1981- author.

Series:

Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual desire disorders.

Women--Sexual behavior.

Women.

Femininity.

Sex therapy.

Physical Description:

ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sexual Difference and Femininity in Sex Therapy and Sex Research: Examples from the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First Centuries

ch. 2 Interest, Arousal, and Motivation in Contemporary Sexology: The Feminization of Responsive Desire

ch. 3 Women-with-Low-Desire: Navigating and Negotiating Sexual Difference Socialization

ch. 4 Embodied Invisible Labor, Sexual Carework: The Cultural Logic and Affective Valorization of Responsive Female Desire

ch. 5 Reclaiming Receptivity: Parasexual Pleasure in the Face of Compulsory and Feminized Trauma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.

ISBN:

9780814214510

0814214517

9780814257692

0814257690

OCLC:

1142512053