Orgasmology (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822353911 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Very difficult to read and understand" according to Explorer579@aol.com. I read an article by the author and bought the book yesterday without examining its first few pages. If I did, I would not have bought it. I read this morning the first ten percent of Orgasmology. It is the biggest compilation of jargon I have ever read. The book causes cognitive overload and blows up your brain shutting off all possible comprehension. I have a Ph.D. -- and I am partly academic -- and the book was difficult for me to read. Many sentences were one-page long full of jargon and very difficult to un. Danielle George said Not what I expected - but a lot of this could have been my fault. I bought this book to help me with my study on sex culture and how it's impacting women with increased pressure to achieve orgasms during penetrative sex. I guess my brain was just a little over fried to read another really wordy hyper-intellectually written article or book. I didn't find this very to the point or accessible.
As modern subjects, we presume we already know everything there is to know about orgasm. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from medical imaging to pornographic visualization, from impersonal sexual publics to domestic erotic intimacies, Jagose traces the career of orgasm across the twentieth century.Along the way, she examines marriage manuals of the 1920s and 1930s, designed to teach heterosexual couples how to achieve simultaneous orgasms; provides a queer reading of behavioral modification practices of the 1960s and 1970s, aimed at transforming gay men into heterosexuals; and demonstrates how representations of orgasm have shaped ideas about sexuality and sexual identity.A confident and often counterintuitive engagement with feminist and queer traditions of critical thought, Orgasmology affords fresh perspectives on not just sex, sexual orientati
Neither gay nor straight, queer nor normative, male nor female, orgasm shows up everywhere; its lability allows Annamarie Jagose to roam freely across a wide range of critical discourses, scenes, and textual objects. Sentence by sentence, this book is extremely rewarding—funny, finely observed, and smart in all the right places.". "Orgasmology disrupts queer doxa through a renewed emphasis on the materiality of sexual practice