Female Sexuality

Author : Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913662

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Female Sexuality by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel Pdf

Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la sexualite feminine, the book consists of six major essays and a comprehensive introduction which reviews the various approaches to the subject. Freudian and non-Freudian views on female sexuality are carefully examined, thus providing a valuable perspective from which to view the authors' subsequent discussions. "The present authors," writes Dr J. Chasseguet-Smirgel in her introduction, "have attempted as far as possible to free their theoretical ideas and their clinical interpretations from the unconscious fantasies which distort scientific objectivity. "Christian David thus uses a clinical history to study masculine myths about femininity; Catherine Luquet-Parat attributes an important role to female masochism in the young girl's "change of object"; Bela Grunberger examines the origins of female narcissism.

Author : Katherine Rowland
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580058346

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The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland Pdf

American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.

Author : Sarah Barmak
Publisher : Exploded Views
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1552453235

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Closer by Sarah Barmak Pdf

A provocative look at why our current understanding of female sexuality isn't getting us off.

Author : Lisa M. Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674026241

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Sexual Fluidity by Lisa M. Diamond Pdf

Is love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.

Author : Wednesday Martin
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316463645

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Untrue by Wednesday Martin Pdf

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex. What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic pastoralists in Namibia who bear children by men not their husbands? Like women worldwide, they crave sexual variety, novelty, and excitement. In ancient Greek tragedies, Netflix series, tabloids and pop songs, we've long portrayed such cheating women as dangerous and damaged. We love to hate women who are untrue. But who are they really? And why, in this age of female empowerment, do we continue to judge them so harshly? In Untrue, feminist author and cultural critic Wednesday Martin takes us on a bold, fascinating journey to reveal the unexpected evolutionary legacy and social realities that drive female faithlessness, while laying bare our motivations to contain women who step out. Blending accessible social science and interviews with sex researchers, anthropologists, and real women from all walks of life, Untrue challenges our deepest assumptions about ourselves, monogamy, and the women we think we know. From recent data suggesting women may struggle more than men with sexual exclusivity to the revolutionary idea that females of many species evolved to be "promiscuous" to Martin's trenchant assertion that female sexual autonomy is the ultimate metric of gender equality, Untrue will change the way you think about women and sex forever.

Author : Shere Hite
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781609800352

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The Hite Report by Shere Hite Pdf

A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's innovation was simple: she asked women, a lot of them, everything--and published the results. One hundred thousand women, ages fourteen to seventy-eight, were asked what they do and don't like about sex; how orgasm really feels, with and without intercourse; how it feels not to have an orgasm during sex; the importance of clitoral stimulation and masturbation; and to name the greatest pleasures and frustrations of their sexual lives, among many other questions. The Hite Report declares that orgasm is easy and strong for women, given the right stimulation; that most women have orgasm most easily during masturbation or clitoral stimulation by hand; that sex as we define it is a cultural institution, not a biological one; and that attitudes must change to include the stimulation women desire.

Author : Randy Thornhill,Steven W. Gangestad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780195340983

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The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality by Randy Thornhill,Steven W. Gangestad Pdf

This title introduces a theoretical framework for understanding women's sexuality based on comparative female sexuality across all vertebrate animals. It shows that estrus is present in human females, contrary to earlier research.

Author : Donna Bassin
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0765700816

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Female Sexuality by Donna Bassin Pdf

Reading the inherited paper along with the contemporary essay provides a rare opportunity for a reader to experience the development of new ideas, with their own integrity, from the past.

Author : Mary Jane Sherfey
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015022098902

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The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality by Mary Jane Sherfey Pdf

Author : Susie Jolly,Andrea Cornwall,Kate Hawkins
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781780325736

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Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure by Susie Jolly,Andrea Cornwall,Kate Hawkins Pdf

This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women. Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this has been hugely important in challenging violence against women, over-emphasizing these negative aspects has dovetailed with conservative ideologies that associate women’s sexualities with danger and fear. On the other hand, the media, the pharmaceutical industry, and pornography more broadly celebrate the pleasures of sex in ways that can be just as oppressive, often implying that only certain types of people - young, heterosexual, able-bodied, HIV-negative - are eligible for sexual pleasure. Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure brings together challenges to these strictures and exclusions from both the South and North of the globe, with examples of activism, advocacy and programming which use pleasure as an entry point. It shows how positive approaches to pleasure and sexuality can enhance equality and empowerment for all.

Author : Carole S. Vance
Publisher : Pandora Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0044408676

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Pleasure and Danger by Carole S. Vance Pdf

This is a contribution to the discussion of sexuality for women - sexual danger and sexual pleasure.

Author : Miryam Clough
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351850506

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Shame, the Church and the Regulation of Female Sexuality by Miryam Clough Pdf

Shame strikes at the heart of human individuals rupturing relationships, extinguishing joy and, at times, provoking conflict and violence. This book explores the idea that shame has historically been, and continues to be, used by an oftentimes patriarchal Christian Church as a mechanism to control and regulate female sexuality and to displace men’s ambivalence about sex. Using a study of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries as a historical example, contemporary feminist theological and theoretical scholarship are utilised to examine why the Church as an institution has routinely colluded with the shaming of individuals, and moreover why women are consistently and overtly shamed on account of, and indeed take the blame for, sex. In addition, the text asks whether the avoidance of shame is in fact functional in men’s efforts to adhere to patriarchal gender norms and religious ideals, and whether women end up paying the price for the maintenance of this system. This book is a fresh take on the issue of shame and gender in the context of religious belief and practice. As such it will be of significant interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, but also History, Psychology and Gender Studies.

Author : Judith C. Daniluk
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572309113

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Women's Sexuality Across the Life Span by Judith C. Daniluk Pdf

Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, this book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural and biological influences on womens's sense of themselves as sexual beings. Written for practitioners and educators, its goal is to challenge contradictory messages and meanings that cause many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and from their needs and desires. Themes explored include the development of sexual awareness and sexuality in childhood and adolescence, the critical sexual choices of young adulthood, and the multiple transitions characterizing the middle and later years of life. The book features creative exercises and interventions to help girls and women construct more affirming sexual meanings.

Author : Judith Long Laws,Pepper Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016167499

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Sexual Scripts by Judith Long Laws,Pepper Schwartz Pdf

Author : Donna Marie Castañeda
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780313397103

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The Essential Handbook of Women's Sexuality by Donna Marie Castañeda Pdf

This cutting-edge two-volume set with contributions by distinguished and internationally recognized scholars provides a comprehensive picture of contemporary issues in the field of women's sexuality, emphasizing women's diversity and international perspectives. The multifaceted field of women's sexuality has expanded as a field of inquiry over the last 25 years to encompass a wide range of new perspectives, theories, topics, findings, and controversies. The chapters in this work review and question the utility of standard sexuality frameworks, addressing purely biological models, heteronormative definitions of sexuality, and others; and provide new insights and approaches to understanding women's sexuality. The intersectional and contextual nature of women's sexuality and how it is inextricably connected to women's relational, social, economic, and cultural contexts is highlighted. The Essential Handbook of Women's Sexuality includes in-depth coverage of a wide range of women's sexuality topics, including sexual desire and satisfaction; sexuality in relationships; development across the lifespan; sexuality concerns in diverse countries; pornography; lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women; women from diverse backgrounds; health and sexuality; reconceptualizations of women's sexual problems; trauma, rape, and intimate partner violence; and mental health and therapy. These volumes can serve as a resource for students, researchers, and anyone seeking a greater understanding of women's sexuality.