Sex is not a natural act and other essays /
Tiefer, Leonore,
Sex is not a natural act and other essays / Sex is not a natural act & other essays. Leonore Tiefer. - Second edition. - xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
Acknowledgments; Credits; Introduction to the Second Edition: Good News and Bad News; Part One: Sex is Not a Natural Act: Theme and Variations; 1 "Am I Normal?" The Question of Sex; 2 Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality; 3 Sexual Biology and The Symbolism of the Natural; 4 Historical, Scientific, Clinical, and FeministCriticisms of "The Human Sexual ResponseCycle" Model; Part Two: Popular Writings on the Theme; 1 Six Months at the Daily News; 2 The Kiss; 3 From Niagara to Viagra: Why It Is So Hard to JustTALK About Sex; 4 The Opposite of Sex. 5 The McDonaldization of Sex6 Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol andSubstance; Part Three: Feminism and Sexuality; 1 An Activist in Sexology; 2 Biological Politics (Read: Propaganda) Is Alive andWell in Sexology; 3 Gender and Meaning in the Nomenclature ofSexual Dysfunctions; 4 Some Harms to Women of Restrictions on SexuallyRelated Expression; 5 Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy; 6 The Capacity for Outrage: Feminism, Humor, and Sex; Part Four: The Medicalization of Sexuality; 1 Sexism in Sex Therapy: Whose Idea Is"Sensate Focus"?; 2 Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health. 3 The Medicalization of Impotence: NormalizingPhallocentrism4 Pleasure, Medicalization, and the Tyranny of theNatural; 5 Sexology and the Pharmaceutical Industry:The Threat of Co-optation; Part Five: The Creation of FSD; 1 "Female Sexual Dysfunction" Alert: A NewDisorder Invented for Women; 2 A New View of Women's Sexual Problems byThe Working Group on a New View of Women'sSexual Problems; 3 The Selling of "Female Sexual Dysfunction"; 4 Book Review: A New Sexual World-NOT!; 5 The Pink Viagra Story: We Have the Drug, butWhat's the Disease?; Conclusion: We Need Theory, We Need Politics.
"Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States today; she is a well-known and respected scholar who writes engagingly and humorously about a wide array of topics in sexuality to appeal to both students and general readers. Revised and updated with new pieces on the medicalization of sex, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the politics of sex, as well as classic pieces found in the original edition, such as "Am I Normal?: The Question of Sex.""--Publisher description.
0813341841 9780813341842 081334185X 9780813341859
2003022366
Sex.
Sexology.
HQ21 / .T574 2004
306.7
Sex is not a natural act and other essays / Sex is not a natural act & other essays. Leonore Tiefer. - Second edition. - xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
Acknowledgments; Credits; Introduction to the Second Edition: Good News and Bad News; Part One: Sex is Not a Natural Act: Theme and Variations; 1 "Am I Normal?" The Question of Sex; 2 Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality; 3 Sexual Biology and The Symbolism of the Natural; 4 Historical, Scientific, Clinical, and FeministCriticisms of "The Human Sexual ResponseCycle" Model; Part Two: Popular Writings on the Theme; 1 Six Months at the Daily News; 2 The Kiss; 3 From Niagara to Viagra: Why It Is So Hard to JustTALK About Sex; 4 The Opposite of Sex. 5 The McDonaldization of Sex6 Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol andSubstance; Part Three: Feminism and Sexuality; 1 An Activist in Sexology; 2 Biological Politics (Read: Propaganda) Is Alive andWell in Sexology; 3 Gender and Meaning in the Nomenclature ofSexual Dysfunctions; 4 Some Harms to Women of Restrictions on SexuallyRelated Expression; 5 Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy; 6 The Capacity for Outrage: Feminism, Humor, and Sex; Part Four: The Medicalization of Sexuality; 1 Sexism in Sex Therapy: Whose Idea Is"Sensate Focus"?; 2 Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health. 3 The Medicalization of Impotence: NormalizingPhallocentrism4 Pleasure, Medicalization, and the Tyranny of theNatural; 5 Sexology and the Pharmaceutical Industry:The Threat of Co-optation; Part Five: The Creation of FSD; 1 "Female Sexual Dysfunction" Alert: A NewDisorder Invented for Women; 2 A New View of Women's Sexual Problems byThe Working Group on a New View of Women'sSexual Problems; 3 The Selling of "Female Sexual Dysfunction"; 4 Book Review: A New Sexual World-NOT!; 5 The Pink Viagra Story: We Have the Drug, butWhat's the Disease?; Conclusion: We Need Theory, We Need Politics.
"Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States today; she is a well-known and respected scholar who writes engagingly and humorously about a wide array of topics in sexuality to appeal to both students and general readers. Revised and updated with new pieces on the medicalization of sex, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the politics of sex, as well as classic pieces found in the original edition, such as "Am I Normal?: The Question of Sex.""--Publisher description.
0813341841 9780813341842 081334185X 9780813341859
2003022366
Sex.
Sexology.
HQ21 / .T574 2004
306.7