The science/fiction of sex : feminist deconstruction and the vocabularies of heterosex / Annie Potts.
Material type: TextSeries: Women and psychologyPublisher: London : Routledge, 2002Description: xi, 292 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415257301
- 9780415257305
- 041525731X
- 9780415257312
- 306.7
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New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-288) and index.
Introduction. Sexology and its discontents. Let's get meta(physical). Intellectualizing sex. Preparing for take-off: the sequence of event. -- PART ONE: THE SCIENCE/FICTION OF SEX. -- 1. Sexual science fiction. The discursive construction of sex. The genesis of sexology. The vocabularies of sexology. Sexology and safer sex. -- 2. War of the worlds. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The science (fiction) of sex: Mars and Venus in the bedroom. The construction of pleasure: male (s)expertise, female surrender. Afterplay: Gray strikes out. -- PART TWO: THE VOCABULARIES OF HETEROSEX. -- 3. The day the earth stood still. Deconstructing orgasm. Textual analysis of orgasm. (In)conclusion: disrupting the phallic orgasm. -- 4. The man with two brains. The infusion of body and culture with the sexual self. The exteriorization of masculine heterosexual experience. Measuring up: firmer, faster, bigger is better. On-going speculations. -- 5. The incredible shrinking man. The penis stands in for/up the man. The 'dysfunctional' penis: how the mind matters. Expanding in other ways: sexual pleasure in excess of the erect penis. -- 6. Innerspace. Interior designs: the feminization of space and the spatialization of woman. Foreign bodies and hazardous fluids: the 'curse' of woman. Regulating material girls. Changing place. -- 7. The final frontier. "Putting things in there": the benefits of exteriority. Gain and pain: gendered first experiences of heterosexual intercourse. Avenging lips: women's discursive resistance to colonization. -- 8. Brave new worlds. It's sex, but not as we know it. The outer limits. (Anti-climax) a plateau. -- Parting comments, future sexes. Revamping the sexual. Spacing out. -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.
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