The science/fiction of sex : feminist deconstruction and the vocabularies of heterosex /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | Women and psychology.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Sexology and its discontents. Let's get meta(physical). Intellectualizing sex. Preparing for take-off: the sequence of event.
- PART ONE: THE SCIENCE/FICTION OF SEX.
- 1. Sexual science fiction. The discursive construction of sex. The genesis of sexology. The vocabularies of sexology. Sexology and safer sex.
- 2. War of the worlds. Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. The science (fiction) of sex: Mars and Venus in the bedroom. The construction of pleasure: male (s)expertise, female surrender. Afterplay: Gray strikes out.
- PART TWO: THE VOCABULARIES OF HETEROSEX.
- 3. The day the earth stood still. Deconstructing orgasm. Textual analysis of orgasm. (In)conclusion: disrupting the phallic orgasm.
- 4. The man with two brains. The infusion of body and culture withing the sexual self. The exteriorization of masculine heterosexual experience. Measuring up: firmer, faster, bigger is better. On-going speculations.
- 5. The incredible shrinking man. The penis stands in for/up the man. The 'dysfunctional' penis: how the mind matters. Expanding in other ways: sexual pleasure in excess of the erect penis.
- 6. Innerspace. Interior designs: the feminization of space and the spatialization of woman. Foreign bodies and hazardous fluids: the 'curse' of woman. Regulating material girls. Changing place.
- 7. The final frontier. "Putting things in there": the benefits of exteriority. Gain and pain: gendered first experiences of heterosexual intercourse. Avenging lips: women's discursive resistance to colonization.
- 8. Brave new worlds. It's sex, but not as we know it. The outer limits. (Anti-climax) a plateau.
- Parting comments, future sexes. Revamping the sexual. Spacing out.
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2.
