The Etherized Wife: Privilege and Power in Sex Therapy Discourse

by Leslie Margolin

The Etherized Wife seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution of sex therapy through the prism of gender. It focuses, in particular, on how sex therapists "treat" women's sexual problems, arguing that these practices have actually enshrined male sexuality and supremacy by advocating for heterosexual intercourse as the pinnacle of a healthy sex life. It holds that in sex, like other domains of life in which men set the standard of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190061200
• ISBN13: 9780190061203
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"