Women's Sexuality across the Life Span: Challenging Myths, Creating Meanings [Paperback]

Judith C. Daniluk PhD (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1572309113 | ISBN-13: 978-1572309111 | Publication Date: June 9, 2003 | Edition: 1

This essential book explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences on the creation of individual sexual meanings--meanings central to each woman's experience of herself as a sexual person. The author shows how these meanings are often problematic and contradictory, causing many women to feel disconnected from their bodies and from their needs and desires. Demonstrating how problematic myths and messages can be challenged, the book outlines ways that women can be empowered to create a more comfortable and self-defined sexuality throughout life.

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"This is a positive approach to female sexuality--one that emphasizes agency, activity, and choice. It is empowering....Daniluk is to be congratulated for her vision and recommendations." --From the Foreword by Sandra R. Leiblum, PhD

"Kudos to Judith Daniluk for identifying and analyzing the factors that constrain and constrict female sexual expression. Taking a developmental approach, Daniluk delineates the myriad messages and factors that operate at each and every stage of a woman's life to thwart her comfort with her body and with her sexual behavior. Nearly every chapter in this remarkable and timely book concludes with a series of exercises that encourage and nourish a positive vision of women's sexuality. 'Must' reading for educators and clinicians." --Sandra R. Leiblum, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry; Co-director, Center of Sexual and Marital Health, UMDNJ--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; editor of 4 Guilford sex therapy titles

"This beautifully written, thoroughly engaging book is an impressive achievement by any standard. Critiquing many of the taken-for-granted assumptions which problematize sexuality for women, Daniluk offers constructive solutions for those attempting to intervene at a practical level to effect change in women's sexual lives. The book is both thought-provoking and reassuring, deftly weaving together biological, psychosocial, and feminist theories of sexuality in a way that makes a nonsense of the unidimensional analyses of the past. It should be read by anyone interested in women's sexuality: researchers, students, clinicians, and educators, and women themselves." --Jane M. Ussher, PhD, author of Fantasies of Femininity

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Judith C. Daniluk, PhD, is Professor and Director of Training in the Counselling Psychology Program at the University of British Columbia.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press; 1 edition (June 9, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572309113
• ISBN-13: 978-1572309111
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,149,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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