A New View of Women's Sexual Problems

A New View of Women's Sexual Problems

by Leonore Tiefer (Author), EllynKaschak (Author)

Synopsis

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. International experts from India, Costa Rica, Israel, the US, and many other cultures place this revolutionary idea in cultural and political context, as well as extrapolating fresh new treatment options for dealing with women's sexual problems.A New View of Women's Sexual Problems analyzes the new paradigm's implications in many fields, including:

  • family medicine
  • couples counseling for straight and lesbian partners
  • STD prevention and sexual health issues
  • sex therapy
  • sex education
  • feminist theory
  • developmental psychology

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 25 Feb 2002

ISBN 10: 0789016826
ISBN 13: 9780789016829

Media Reviews
Useful, complex and valid. - Judy Norsigian and Jane Pincus, co-authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century
Author Bio
Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D., the author of Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience, is Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University and has been practising psychotherapy for 30 years. Leonore Tiefer, Ph.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The author of Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays and Human Sexuality: Feelings and Functions, she has been a licensed clinical psychologist for the past 30 years.