| Description |
xi, 140 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
"The chapters in this book were originally published in Psychology & sexuality, volume 4, issue 2 (May 2013) and volume 1, issue 3 (September 2010)"--Page vii. |
| Contents |
Who reports absence of sexual attraction in Britain? Evidence from national probability surveys / Catherine R.H. Aicken, Catherine H. Mercer and Jackie A. Cassell -- Mental health and interpersonal functioning in self-identified asexual men and women / Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto and Boris B. Gorzalka -- HSDD and asexuality : a question of instruments / Jacinthe Flore -- How is asexuality different from hypoactive sexual desire disorder? / Andrew Hinderliter -- Asexuality : from pathology to identity and beyond / Randi Gressgard -- Sex as a normalising technology : early-twentieth-century public sex education campaigns / Elizabeth Stephen -- Average and the normal in nineteenth-century French medical discourse / Peter Cryle -- From pre-normal to abnormal : the emergence of a concept in late eighteenth-century France / Caroline Waman -- Afterword : some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method / Ela Przybylo -- A mystery wrapped in an enigma : asexuality, a virtual discussion / C.J. Bishop. |
| Summary |
"The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as 'people who do not experience sexual attraction'. This unique volume collects a diverse range of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical work which addresses this emergence, raising important and timely questions about asexuality and its broader implications for sexual culture. One of the most pressing and contentious issues within academic and public debates about asexuality is what relationship, if any, it has to sexual dysfunction. As well as collecting cutting edge scholarship in the emerging field of asexuality studies, rendering it indispensable to any sexualities course across the range of disciplines, this anthology also addresses this urgent debate, offering a variety of perspectives on how and why some have pathologised asexuality. This includes a range of chapters addressing the broader issues of sexual normativity within which these contemporary debates about asexuality are taking place."--Page i. |
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Sexual desire disorders.
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Sexual desire disorders. |
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Sexual disorders.
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Sexual disorders. |
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Sexual attraction.
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Sexual attraction. |
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Sex (Psychology)
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Sex (Psychology) |
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Asexual people.
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Asexual people. |
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Asexuality (Sexual orientation)
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Asexuality (Sexual orientation) |
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Disorders of sexual development. |
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Asexual people. |
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Asexuality. |
| Added Author |
Carrigan, Mark (Mark Alexander), editor.
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Gupta, Kristina, editor.
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Morrison, Todd G., editor.
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| Added Title |
Psychology & sexuality.
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| ISBN |
9780415731324 |
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0415731321 |
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