The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex (Women and Psychology) (Paperback)

by Annie Potts (Author) "Nowhere, perhaps, do the interests of fiction and those of science meet and mingle more intimately than in that body of knowledge we have come..." (more)
Key Phrases: orgasmic imperative, safer heterosex, sexual corporeality, Luce Irigaray, New Zealand, John Gray (more...)

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Annie Potts has opened up new ways of understanding the open potential of all forms of sexuality - an exciting and crucial project for feminists of the future. - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University

The Science/Fiction of Sex is original, witty, extremely clever ... It has some remarkable chapters, such as the one on masculinity, which I would rate among the best Ive ever read. The analysis of the alternative erotic-theoretical systems proposed by Irigaray and Deleuze are first-class pieces of writing ... daring and intelligent. - Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands Research School of Womens Studies, Utrecht University

Product Description
This interview material, combined with excerpts from sexological and medical texts and features from film and television, draws attention to the ways in which western cultural constructs influence our ideas and experiences of the body, sex and gender. Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction, femininity and masculinity, and safer sex practice.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (February 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 041525731X
• ISBN-13: 978-0415257312
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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