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Overview"The Etherized Wife seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. It focuses, in particular, on how sex therapists ""treat"" women's sexual problems, arguing that these practices have actually enshrined male sexuality and supremacy by advocating for heterosexual intercourse as the pinnacle of a healthy sex life. It holds that in sex, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of normality, women have been judged normal to the degree they match men's expectations. To support these claims, Margolin maps a series of case studies drawn from the sex therapy literature--the articles and books that have been, and continue to be treated as exemplar's of the discipline's collective consciousness. Through examination of case studies which focus on discrepancies in sexual desire, where the male partner wants more sex and the female wants less, the book shows how therapists have favored the male's side. The Etherized Wife shows how the sex therapy discipline has upheld male sexuality as the model of normal, natural, healthy sexuality." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leslie Margolin (Professor of Rhetoric, Sexuality, and Counselling, Professor of Rhetoric, Sexuality, and Counselling, University of Iowa)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780190061203ISBN 10: 0190061200 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 25 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Sex Therapy Pre-history 1. Freud, Dora, and Compulsory Sexuality 2. The Frigidity Epidemic Part 2: Birth of Sex Therapy 3. Masters and Johnson, and the Primacy of Intercourse 4. Male Identification 5. Docile Bodies Part 3: Contemporary Sex Therapy 6. Doublethink 7. Men's Free Will 8. Women's Duty 9. Sex Therapy without Male Privilege and Power 10. Discontinuities, Deviations, and Reversals 11. Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsIn The Etherized Wife, Les Margolin offers brilliant, pro-feminist insights into the role of sex therapy in reinforcing normative sex roles through its entrenched imposition of phallogocentric standards on women's sexuality. Lucidly written, deeply theorized, historically grounded, and analytically adept, this book signals a welcome and radical paradigm shift in counseling therapy, theories of sexuality, and feminist studies - one with the potential for a progressive transformation, not just of therapeutic practice, but of society. * Meenakshi Gigi Durham, University of Iowa * This is a book everyone should read because it addresses common misconceptions concerning sexual desire. I think anyone who reads the book - if they really think about the content-will be changed in how they view sexuality including their own. * Eileen Gambrill, Professor of the Graduate School, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley * Author InformationLeslie Margolin is a professor of rhetoric, sexuality, and counselling at the University of Iowa. Margolin's previous books include Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children and Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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