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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2020]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814214510 0814214517 9780814257692 0814257690 |