Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century 9780814257692

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Автор: Spurgas Alyson K.
Название: Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780814257692
Издательство: Ohio State University Press
Классификация:

Социальные проблемы м процессы

Потеря трудоспособности: социальные аспекты

Гендерные исследования, гендерные группы

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Сексуальное поведение

Здоровье женщин

Секс и сексуальность, пособия по половой жизни

ISBN-10: 0814257690
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 290
Вес: 0.42 кг.
Дата издания: 23.10.2020
Серия: Abnormativities: queer/gender/embodiment
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 2 illustrations
Размер: 22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Biopolitics and femininity into the twenty-first century
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Winner of the 2021 Culture Studies Association First Book Prize

In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the new science of female sexuality from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how todays feminist-identified sex researchers study and manage women with low desire. Diagnosing Desire investigates experimental sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire, new models for understanding womens sexual response, and cutting-edge treatments for low desire in women--including from the realms of mindfulness and alternative healing.

Spurgas makes the case that, together, all of these technologies create a feminized responsive desire framework for understanding womens sexuality, and that this, in fact, produces womens sexuality as a complex problem to be solved. The biggest problem, Spurgas argues, is that gendered and sexualized trauma--including as it is produced within technoscientific medicine itself--is too often ignored in contemporary renderings. Through incisive textual analysis and in-depth qualitative research based on interviews with women with low desire, Spurgas argues for a more radical and communal form of care for feminized--and traumatized--populations, in opposition to biopolitical mandates to individualize and neoliberalize forms of self-care. Ultimately, this is a book not just about a specific diagnosis or dysfunction but about the material-discursive regimes that produce and regulate femininity.

Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Spurgas Alyson K.