Diagnosing desire : biopolitics and femininity into the twenty-first century /

Examines how low female desire is produced, embedded and lived within neoliberal capitalism. Rethinks 'femininity' by investigating sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire and new mode...

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Main Author: Spurgas, Alyson K., 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Series:Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment.
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Summary:Examines how low female desire is produced, embedded and lived within neoliberal capitalism. Rethinks 'femininity' by investigating sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire and new models for understanding women's sexual response.
Physical Description:ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.
ISBN:9780814214510
0814214517
9780814257692
0814257690