"Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of her writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing Beauvoir is still good to think with today"--

American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.

This scarce antiquarian book contains the first of two volumes of Wilhelm Stekel s Frigidity in Woman in Relation to Her Love Life. An authority on sexuality in psychoanalysis, Stekel s treatise on the subject of female frigidity draws from a wealth of clinical experiences and includes highly interesting and enlightening accounts from his prolific experience in the field. This text is easily accessible and retains much of its educational value to this day, making it a must-read for anybody interested in the subject. Contained herein are chapters including: The Struggle of the Sexes, Confessions, Psychoanalysis of a Case of Dyspareunia, The Analysis of a Messalina, Fragmentary Analysis of a Transvestite, and Retrospect and Survey. Wilhelm Stekel was a seminal Austrian psychologist most famous for being one of Freud s earliest and most precocious students. Elected for republication because of its immense educational value, this rare text is republished now with a new introductory biography of the author."

Is your sex life dragging its feet? You're not alone. One in five U.S. couples is stuck in a sexless marriage. One in five! If it was an infectious disease, we'd label it epidemic and be forced to wear surgical masks. Every month, over 21,000 people google the phrase "sexless marriage" looking for answers. Looking for hope. Looking for anything. Hope is here. In this groundbreaking book, you'll learn: - The real reason women pull away emotionally and sexually before leaving for good (you'll be shocked) - The two questions Jack Canfield asks his wife every weekend and why they'll have you scoring big in the bedroom - What the Propaganda Machine has been hiding from you since puberty and how it's hurting your marriage - How to lower her blood pressure and bring sexy back for less than 95 cents a day (and why it works) Welcome to the conversation. It's about time.