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Overview
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
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
Booknews
The title article, written by a working group of 12 clinicians and social scientists and released at a press conference in October 2000, is followed by ten commentaries on it by mental health practitioners and researchers from a number of countries, and 11 reports on new developments in theory and research. They are published simultaneously as , vol. 24, nos. 1/2 (2001). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)