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- Title
Women's Sexual Desire: A Feminist Critique.
- Authors
Wood, Jill M.; Koch, Patricia Barthalow; Mansfield, Phyllis Kernoff
- Abstract
This article offers a critical feminist analysis of the biomedical conceptualization of women's sexual desire. The five major features of the biomedical model of female sexual desire examined and critiqued are (a) use of the male model as the standard, (b) use of a linear model of sexual response, (c) biological reductionism, (d) depoliticalization, and (e) medicalization of variation. A "New View," an alternative to the biomedical model, is offered for reconceplualizing women's sexual problems. This analysis concludes with recommendations for feminist-based biopsychosocial research.
- Subjects
FEMINISM; FEMINIST criticism; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; SEX customs; REDUCTIONISM; MEDICALIZATION; SOCIAL medicine; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL model
- Publication
Journal of Sex Research, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 3, p236
- ISSN
0022-4499
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/00224490609552322