Disorders of desire : sexuality and gender in modern American sexology /
Disorders of Desire is the only book to tell the story of the development and impact of sexology-the scientific study of sex-in the United States. In this era of sex scandals, culture wars, ""Sex in the City, "" and new sexual enhancement technologies (like erectile dysfunction d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Temple University Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Emergence of scientific sexology
- Toward a "value-free" science of sex : the Kinsey reports
- Science, medicine, and a market
- Sexology at a crossroad : consolidation and confusion
- The humanistic theme in sexology
- Sexual science and sexual politics
- Conflict and accommodation : who defines sexuality?
- Practice of scientific sexology : sex therapy and gender research
- Repairing the conjugal bed : the clinical practice of modern sex therapy
- Regulated passions : the invention of inhibited sexual desire and sex addiction
- Boys will be girls : contemporary research on gender.
