The pleasure gap : American women & the unfinished sexual revolution /

"Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and sim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rowland, Katherine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Seal Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • A note on how I wrote this book
  • Sexuality in the crosshairs of culture. The pleasure gap ; What's all the fuss about? ; Learning (not) to lust ; What the body remembers ; Tradition and its discontents
  • Closing the gap. It's all in your head ; You can change your mind ; The language of language and the language of touch ; Human potential on the open market ; Opening to choice ; Playing with power ; The limits of talk
  • Conclusion: beyond the physical.