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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irvine, Janice M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2005.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
Temas:
Sexology > Research > United States.
Sexology > United States.
Sexology
Sexual Behavior
Sexualité > Recherche > États-Unis.
Sexologie > États-Unis.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Sexology > Research
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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