The etherized wife : privilege and power in sex therapy discourse /
'The Etherized Wife' provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. The book makes the argument that in sex therapy, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they ma...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'The Etherized Wife' provides a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. The book makes the argument that in sex therapy, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they match men's expectations. What is particularly striking about this bias is that it contradicts therapists' overt identification with feminism and the battle against women's inequality. To support these claims, Leslie Margolin maps a series of case studies drawn from the discipline's own literature - the articles and books that have been, and continue to be, treated as exemplars of the discipline's collective consciousness. Through examination of case studies that focus on discrepancies in sexual desire, where the man wants more sex and the woman less, the text shows how therapists have favoured the man's side. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190061234 0190061235 |