Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 292 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

1. What can be learnt from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experiences? In this study contemporary feminist and postructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation into how people make sense of sex in a wide variety of contexts.

Series statement

1. Women and psychology

Uniform title

1. Women and psychology

Subject

1. Sex
2. Sex role
3. Sexology
4. Feminist theory
5. Sex (Biology)
6. Feminism
7. Gender identity
8. Sex
9. Feminism
10. Gender Identity
11. Heterosexuality
12. Sexual Behavior
13. Gender Role
14. sexuality
15. sex role
16. feminism
17. sex (biological characteristic)
18. Gender identity
19. Feminist theory
20. Sex role
21. Sexology
22. Feminismus
23. Sexualwissenschaft
24. Seksualiteit
25. Sekseverschillen
26. Terminologie

Contents

1. Introduction. Sexology and its discontents. Let's get meta(physical). Intellectualizing sex. Preparing for take-off: the sequence of event. -- PART ONE: THE SCIENCE/FICTION OF SEX. -- 1. Sexual science fiction. The discursive construction of sex. The genesis of sexology. The vocabularies of sexology. Sexology and safer sex. -- 2. War of the worlds. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The science (fiction) of sex: Mars and Venus in the bedroom. The construction of pleasure: male (s)expertise, female surrender. Afterplay: Gray strikes out. -- PART TWO: THE VOCABULARIES OF HETEROSEX. -- 3. The day the earth stood still. Deconstructing orgasm. Textual analysis of orgasm. (In)conclusion: disrupting the phallic orgasm. -- 4. The man with two brains. The infusion of body and culture withing the sexual self. The exteriorization of masculine heterosexual experience. Measuring up: firmer, faster, bigger is better. On-going speculations. -- 5. The incredible shrinking man. The penis stands in for/up the man. The 'dysfunctional' penis: how the mind matters. Expanding in other ways: sexual pleasure in excess of the erect penis. -- 6. Innerspace. Interior designs: the feminization of space and the spatialization of woman. Foreign bodies and hazardous fluids: the 'curse' of woman. Regulating material girls. Changing place. -- 7. The final frontier. "Putting things in there": the benefits of exteriority. Gain and pain: gendered first experiences of heterosexual intercourse. Avenging lips: women's discursive resistance to colonization. -- 8. Brave new worlds. It's sex, but not as we know it. The outer limits. (Anti-climax) a plateau. -- Parting comments, future sexes. Revamping the sexual. Spacing out. -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. New Zealand author.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-288) and index.