A New View of Womens Sexual Problems

Description

Take a Fresh Look at Women's Sexuality! Bringing together gender theory, psychology, social science and medicine, this is a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to the problems women face everyday in regards to sex and sexuality. A New View of Women's Sexual Problems presents and examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on women's sexuality, which offers a women-centred definition of their sexual problems and provides four categories of causes: socio-cultural, political or economic factors; partner and relationship factors' psychological factors; and medical factors. Responding to this work based on their own professional and cultural interaction with women's sexuality and sexual problems, international experts from India, Costa Rica, Israel, the US and more place the Working Group's revolutionary ideas in their own cultural and political context. Extrapolating from this exercise many fresh new treatment options for dealing with women's sexual problems, this book comprises a completely new and comprehensive illumination of the female sexual issues, causes and possible solutions.

Reviews

"Useful, complex and valid." - Judy Norsigian and Jane Pincus, co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century

Author description

Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D., the author of Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience, is Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University and has been practising psychotherapy for 30 years. Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The author of Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays and Human Sexuality: Feelings and Functions, she has been a licensed clinical psychologist for the past 30 years.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780789016829
• Publisher : haw
• Imprint : haw
• Dimensions : 152mm X 229mm X 13mm
• Produced in : United States
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 246
• Dewey classification : 616.85830082
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Ellyn Kaschak