Sex Is Not A Natural Act And Other Essays
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-1659-8 (ISBN)
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This collection of smart, accessible essays is culled from a number of Leonore Tiefers popular as well as professional writings and lectures providing a fascinating account of the social construction of sex and sexuality. Provocatively written, the book challenges the essentialism philosophy of sex by examining the where, when, how, and why of sexual behavior in our culture. }This collection of sexologist Leonore Tiefers essays includes popular as well as professional writings and lectures on the social construction of sexuality. Tiefers background as a sexologist is unusually broad, including rodent copulation research, sex therapy, classification of dysfunctions and feminist analysis. Her wit and passion are evident in such essays as The Kiss, Advice to the Lovelorn, Sexual Biology and the Symbolism of the Natural, In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality, and New Perspectives in Sexology: From Rigor (Mortis) to Richness, and they all add up to a lively, controversial presentation of the forces shaping sex in our culture.
As Tiefer provocatively states toward the end of her introduction to Part 1, A kiss is not a kiss; your orgasm is not the same as George Washingtons, premarital sex in Peru is not premarital sex in Peoria, abortion in Rome at the time of Caesar is not abortion at the time of John Paul II, and rape is neither an act of sex nor an act of violenceall of these actions remain to be defined by individual experience within ones period and culture. This book explores sex and its experts in colorful, original, and perceptive ways. }
Leonore Tiefer is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City and has a private practice in sex therapy and psychotherapy in Manhattan. Recently, Dr. Tiefer has become internationally known as the primary spokesperson for a movement that challenges the medicalization of women's sexual problems by the pharmaceutical industry. Both the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the Association for Women in Psychology selected her for their Distinguished Scientific Career Awards in 2004.
Introduction: An Uphill Battle; Sex Is Not A Natural Act: Theme And Variations; Am I Normal? The Question of Sex; Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality; Sexual Biology and the Symbolism of the Natural; Historical, Scientific, Clinical, and Feminist Criticisms of the Human Sexual Response Cycle Model; Applications of Social Constructionism to Research on Gender and Sexuality; Popular Writings On The Theme; Six Months at the; Daily News; The Kiss; Advice to the Lovelorn; Feminism And Sexuality; An Activist in Sexology; Gender and Meaning in the Nomenclature of Sexual Dysfunctions; Deconstructing Prefeminist Sexuality Research; The Feminist Revolution and Sexuality; Feminisms and Pornographies; Some Harms to Women of Restrictions on Sexually Related Expression; Phallocentrism Redux; Sexism in Sex Therapy: Whose Idea Is Sensate Focus?; In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality; The Medicalization of Impotence: Normalizing Phallocentrism; Might Premature Ejaculation Be a Physical Disorder?; The Perfect Penis Takes a Giant Step Forward; Conclusion: The Politics Of Sexology; Three Crises Facing Sexology; New Perspectives in Sexology: From Rigor (Mortis) to Richness; Womens Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health; Sex Is Not a Natural Act: The Next Phase.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.12.1994 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8133-1659-6 / 0813316596 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-1659-8 / 9780813316598 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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