Big pharma, women, and the labour of love /

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Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cacchioni, Thea, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Pharmaceutical industry > Social aspects.
Women > Sexual behavior.
Women > Drug use.
Sexual disorders > Treatment.
Women.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological > drug therapy
Women
Drug Industry
Sexual Behavior > drug effects
Sociological Factors
Women's Health
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect social.
Femmes > Sexualité.
Femmes > Usage des drogues.
Troubles sexuels > Traitement.
Femmes.
Industrie pharmaceutique.
Femmes > Santé et hygiène.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Läkemedelsindustri > sociala aspekter.
Kvinnlig sexualitet.
Sexualliv > genusaspekter.
Sexuella funktionsstörningar > behandling.
Sexuella funktionsstörningar > genusaspekter.
Läkemedelsterapi > genusaspekter.
Läkemedelsanvändning > genusaspekter.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : testifying at the US Food and Drug Administration
  • Introduction : the labour of love in the sexual pharmaceutical era
  • The rise and decline of big pharma's "sexual revolution"
  • Treating women's sexual pain : biomedicalized, demedicalized, and do-it-yourself approaches
  • The limits of normative heterosex
  • Sex work : a labour of love
  • Refusing heteronormative sex work
  • A woman's work is never done
  • Epilogue : the sexual pharmaceutical industry and its discontents.

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