{"product_id":"diagnosing-desire-alyson-k-spurgas-9780814257692","title":"Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity Into the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eDiagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Alyson K. Spurgas examines the \"new science of female sexuality\" from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today's feminist-identified sex researchers study and manage women with low desire. \u003ci\u003eDiagnosing Desire\u003c\/i\u003e investigates experimental sex research that measures the disconnect between subjective and genital female arousal, contemporary psychiatric diagnoses for low female desire, new models for understanding women's sexual response, and cutting-edge treatments for low desire in women--including from the realms of mindfulness and alternative healing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spurgas makes the case that, together, all of these technologies create a \"feminized responsive desire framework\" for understanding women's sexuality, and that this, in fact, \u003ci\u003eproduces \u003c\/i\u003ewomen's sexuality as a complex problem to be solved. The biggest problem, Spurgas argues, is that gendered and sexualized trauma--including as it is produced within technoscientific medicine itself--is too often ignored in contemporary renderings. Through incisive textual analysis and in-depth qualitative research based on interviews with women with low desire, Spurgas argues for a more radical and communal form of care for feminized--and traumatized--populations, in opposition to biopolitical mandates to individualize and neoliberalize forms of self-care. Ultimately, this is a book not just about a specific diagnosis or dysfunction but about the material-discursive regimes that produce and regulate femininity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alyson K. Spurgas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257690\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257692\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2021","brand":"Alyson K. Spurgas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44522728718591,"sku":"9780814257692","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d238dac6-37cc-4010-b122-441aa22448cc.jpg?v=1700158708","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diagnosing-desire-alyson-k-spurgas-9780814257692","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}