Take a new look at women s sexuality

This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of the new paradigm of women s sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women s Sexual Problems examines the theoretical and practical effects of the landmark document produced by the Working Group on a New View of Women s Sexuality. The book brings together gender theory, psychology, social science, and medicine in a powerful cultural critique of the reigning medical approach to women s sexual health....

Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States today; she is a well-known and respected scholar who writes engagingly and humorously about a wide array of topics in sexuality to appeal to both students and general readers. Revised and updated with new pieces on the medicalization of sex, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the politics of sex, as well as classic pieces found in the...