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Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love / Thea Cacchioni.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cacchioni, Thea, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Women--Sexual behavior.
- Women.
- Women--Drug use.
- Sexual disorders--Treatment.
- Sexual disorders.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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?
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-9411-4
- 1-4426-9410-6
- OCLC:
- 929154235
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