Human sexuality: Feelings and functions (The life cycle series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tiefer, Leonore

Psychology & Counseling

Harper&Row

Human Sexuality: Feelings and Functions

A New View of Women's Sexual Problems

Take a new look at women’s sexuality!This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women’s sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on a New View of Women’s Sexuality. The book brings together gender theory, psychology, social science, and medicine in a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to women’s sexual health. International experts from India, Costa Rica, Israel, the US, and many other cultures place this revolutionary idea in cultural and political context, as well as extrapolating fresh new treatment options for dealing with women’s sexual problems.A New View of Women’s Sexual Problems analyzes the new paradigm’s implications in many fields, including: 
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<li> family medicine </li>
<li> couples counseling for straight and lesbian partners </li>
<li> STD prevention and sexual health issues </li>
<li> sex therapy </li>
<li> sex education </li>
<li> feminist theory </li>
<li> developmental psychology</li>
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Kaschak, Ellyn

Reference

Routledge

Sex Is Not A Natural Act And Other Essays

This collection of sexologist Leonore Tiefer's essays includes popular as well as professional writings and lectures on the social construction of sexuality. Tiefer's 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 Washington's, 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 one's period and culture.” This book explores sex and its experts” in colorful, original, and perceptive ways.

Self-Help

Epstein, Marc

Westview Press

This collection of sexologist Leonore Tiefer's essays includes popular as well as professional writings and lectures on the social construction of sexuality. Tiefer's 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 Washington's, 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 one's period and culture.” This book explores sex and its experts” in colorful, original, and perceptive ways.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sex Is Not A Natural Act & Other Essays

This newly updated collection features over 50% new material, spotlighting many of Leonore Tiefer's popular as well as professional writings on the social construction of sexuality. It includes a new section on the creation of "female sexual dysfunction" (FSD), as well as new treatments of medicalization, feminist sex therapy, sex and humor, sexology and the pharmaceutical industry, and "The Kiss." Tiefer's background as a sexologist is unusually broad, including animal mating behavior research, medical research, sex therapy, theories about the classification of dysfunctions, and feminist and cultural analysis. Her wit and passion are evident in such recent essays as "Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol and Substance," "The McDonaldization of Sex," and "A New Sexual World-Not," as well as the now classic pieces "Six Months at the Daily News," "Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health," and "Am I Normal? The Question of Sex." This revised collection treats complex and controversial aspects of sexuality in colorful, perceptive, and memorable ways.

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."

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Human sexuality: Feelings and functions (The life cycle series)

Human Sexuality: Feelings and Functions

A New View of Women's Sexual Problems

A New View of Women's Sexual Problems

Sex Is Not A Natural Act And Other Essays

Sex Is Not A Natural Act And Other Essays

Sex Is Not A Natural Act & Other Essays

Sex Is Not A Natural Act & Other Essays