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Women, Sex, and Madness: Notes from the Edge book cover

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Women, Sex, and Madness Notes from the Edge

By Breanne Fahs Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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Covering a wide variety of subjects and points of inquiry on women's sexuality, from genital anxieties about pubic hair to constructions of the body in the therapy room, this book offers a ground-breaking examination of women, sex, and madness, drawing from psychology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. Breanne Fahs argues that women’s sexuality embodies a permanent state of... Read more

Introduction: mad women, precarity, and the possibilities of sex

Part 1 Women explain things to me

1 Men, through women’s eyes

2 The other third shift? Women’s emotion work in their sexual relationships

3 Slippery desire: women’s qualitative accounts of their vaginal lubrication and wetness

Part 2 Veering and queering

4 Killjoy’s Kastle and the hauntings of queer/lesbian feminism

5 The politics of turning rape into “nonconsensual sex”

6 Genital anxieties: using critical sexuality studies to examine women’s attitudes about the vulva and vagina

Part 3 On the couch 

7 Compulsory penetration? A sex therapy romp

8 Are women people? The lusty and chaotic world of sex addiction

9 Therapy without bodies, or why fleshiness matters

Part 4 All riled up 

10 Warning: capitalism is destroying our sex lives

11 “Freedom to” and “freedom from”: a new vision for sex-positive politics

12 Counter-erotics: sex as a form of resistance

Acknowledgements

Index

Biography

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, US, and a practicing Clinical Psychologist. Her previous books include: Performing Sex (2011), Valerie Solanas (2014), Out for Blood (2016), and Firebrand Feminism (2018).

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