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The Psychology of Desire

Author : Wilhelm Hofmann

Publisher : Guilford Publications

Page : 489 pages

File Size : 32,40 MB

Release : 2016-06-29

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 146252768X

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Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire, this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge, how they influence judgment and decision making, and how problematic desires can be effectively controlled. Current research on underlying brain mechanisms and regulatory processes is reviewed. Cutting-edge measurement tools are described, including practical recommendations for their use. The book also examines pathological forms of desire and the complex relationship between desire and happiness. The concluding section analyzes specific applied domains--eating, sex, aggression, substance use, shopping, and social media.



Forms of Desire

Author : Edward Stein

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 382 pages

File Size : 41,61 MB

Release : 2013-04-15

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1134977204

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Perhaps the foremost issue in the emerging area of inquiry known as lesbian and gay studies is the social constructionist controversy. Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation are cultural constructs rather than naturally universal categories. Forms of Desire brings together important essays by social constructionists and their critics, representing several disciplines and approaches to this debate about the history and science of sexuality.



Lust

Author : Pamela C. Regan

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 40,57 MB

Release : 1999-08-27

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0761917934

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Accessibly written, this interdisciplinary book reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the individual physical and mental factors that influence the experience of sexual desire (hormones, age, gender, beliefs, mood), the various partner characteristics that incite sexual desire (attractiveness) and the association between sexual desire and interpersonal, relational events and experiences (romantic love). The book concludes with an examination of the personal, interpersonal and societal implications of sexual desire. Throughout, the authors draw on findings from their own body of research on sexual and romantic attraction, as well as on an extensive review of the relevant social, behavioural and medical science



The Gender of Desire

Author : Michael S. Kimmel

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 11,40 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0791483886

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Here, one of the world's pioneers in the field of masculinity studies explores the construction of male sexuality, pornography, and sexual violence. Michael S. Kimmel analyzes what male sexuality is, where it comes from, how it works, what affects it, pornography's impact on it, what fantasies men have about sex, what people think about sex, and how male ideas about sex affect what men actually do. Provocative and wide-ranging, these essays make important contributions to sociology, queer theory, American studies, history, and studies of gender, sexuality, and gay and lesbian issues.



Powers of Desire

Author : Ann Barr Snitow

Publisher : NYU Press

Page : 489 pages

File Size : 46,52 MB

Release : 1983

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0853456100

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This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues-abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights-but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the struggle for sexual freedom a complement to other struggles for liberation, or will it detract from them? Has the sexual revolution diminished or enriched the lives of women?



Diagnosing Desire

Author : Alyson K. Spurgas

Publisher : Abnormalities: Queer/Gender/Em

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 40,49 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780814214510

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"Examines how low female desire is produced, embedded, and lived within neoliberal capitalism. Rethinks 'femininity' by investigating sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire, and new models for understanding women's sexual response"--



Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging

Author : Nick Rumens

Publisher : Rodopi

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 21,85 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Art

ISBN : 9042022396

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Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.



Dealing in Desire

Author : Kimberly Kay Hoang

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 13,28 MB

Release : 2015-02-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0520960688

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This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia’s rise and Western decline, while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded.



Desire for Development

Author : Barbara Heron

Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 33,56 MB

Release : 2007-12-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1554580986

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In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections of white Canadian women who have worked in Africa. Following the narrative arc of the development worker story from the decision to go overseas, through the experiences abroad, the return home, and final reflections, the book interweaves theory with the words of the participants to bring theory to life and to generate new understandings of whiteness and development work. Heron reveals how the desire for development is about the making of self in terms that are highly raced, classed, and gendered, and she exposes the moral core of this self and its seemingly paradoxical necessity to the Other. The construction of white female subjectivity is thereby revealed as contingent on notions of goodness and Othering, played out against, and constituted by, the backdrop of the NorthSouth binary, in which Canada’s national narrative situates us as the “good guys” of the world.



How Sexual Desire Works

Author : Frederick Toates

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 513 pages

File Size : 21,66 MB

Release : 2014-09-18

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1107050014

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Book Description

Shows how the diversity of sexual desires, both normal and unusual, emerge from the interactions between underlying brain processes.