Etherized Wife - Privilege and Power in Sex Therapy Discourse

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 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


• Index

About the author

Leslie 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Margolin, Leslie (Professor of Rhetoric Margolin, Margolin Leslie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2021
• EAN: 9780190061203
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006120-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality, RELIGION / Counseling, SELF-HELP / Sexual Instruction, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Psychotherapy, Sex & sexuality, sex manuals, Psychology of gender, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, Religious counselling