Diagnosing Desire : : Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century / / Alyson K. Spurgas.

• Superior document: Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
• VerfasserIn: Spurgas, Alyson K.
• Place / Publishing House: Columbus, Ohio : : The Ohio State University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Abnormativities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the "new science of female sexuality" from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today's feminist-identified sex researchers study and manage women with low desire. Diagnosing Desire investigates experimental sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire, new models for understanding women's sexual response, and cutting-edge treatments for low desire in women-including from the realms of mindfulness and alternative healing.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Sexual Difference and Femininity in Sex Therapy and Sex Research: Examples from the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-First Centuries -- Chapter 2 Interest, Arousal, and Motivation in Contemporary Sexology: The Feminization of Responsive Desire -- Chapter 3 Women-with-Low-Desire: Navigating and Negotiating Sexual Difference Socialization -- Chapter 4 Embodied Invisible Labor, Sexual Carework: The Cultural Logic and Affective Valorization of Responsive Female Desire -- Chapter 5 Reclaiming Receptivity: Parasexual Pleasure in the Face of Compulsory and Feminized Trauma -- Conclusion The Freedom to Fall Apart: Feminine Fracturing and the Affective Production of Gendered Populations -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- Series Page.