Product Description

This intelligent, readable book reframes conventional ideas about how women experience sexual relationship. Newly revised and redesigned, it is now a selection of One Spirit and Quality Paperback Book Clubs. With a foreword by the authors of Our Bodies Ourselves and an afterword on sexual messages in the media, this edition is suited for college and graduate classes as well as a wider readership. Based on original research with women whose stories inform each chapter, it questions male-centered definitions of sexual desire and performance. It proposes a new sexual response cycle that includes nurturing and intimacy along with physical stimulation. It offers inside views of sex research and therapy. It calls for social change honoring women's right to sexual pleasure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1536907 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

The Journal Of Sex Research
"A masterpiece of affirmation-refreshing, moving, and extraordinarily liberating. For sexuality professionals, for our students, patients, and clients, for anyone who loves women, and especially for any woman who loves sex (or wants to love sex), Women Who Love Sex is the freshest breath of air to come along in years."

Canadian Journal Of Human Sexuality
"This book is a remarkable contribution to the literature on female sexuality. Ogden sets out to destroy stereotypes of female sexuality, whether they are found in pop culture, the world of professional sexology, or in current, politically correct 'feminist' ideology. She succeeds by situating women's sexual phenomenology within an appropriate, theoretical context and by substantiating her propositions with empirical support."

Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and Sacred Pleasure
"An authentic, challenging book that leads beyond gender stereotypes to a whole new story about what sexuality can mean to women at the turn of the millennium."