The Sexual Century
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The Sexual Century

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Sexual Century

About this book

Over the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. In this book a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender examines this unquiet revolution, including the roles played by sexologists and psychoanalysts, antibiotics and birth control, the liberation movements, and Freud`s insights.

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Information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780300147278
Edition
1
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Human Sexuality in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. Sex and Gender: General Considerations
  5. 1. The Sexual Century (1998)
  6. 2. Sexuality as the Mainstay of Identity: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (1980)
  7. 3. Psychoanalytic Theories of Gender Identity (1983)
  8. 4. The Influence of Values in Psychoanalysis: The Case of Female Psychology (1983)
  9. Part II. Cross-Gender Disorders
  10. 5. Gender Identity and Sexual Psychopathology in Men: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Transvestism (1973)
  11. 6. The Transsexual Syndrome in Males: Primary Transsexualism (1974)
  12. 7. The Transsexual Syndrome in Males: Secondary Transsexualism (1974)
  13. 8. Transvestism: A Disorder of the Sense of Self (1976)
  14. 9. Transvestism: New Perspectives (1978)
  15. 10. Homosexual Cross-Dressers (1984)
  16. 11. Extreme Boyhood Femininity: Isolated Finding or Pervasive Disorder? (1985)
  17. Part III. Sex and Fantasy
  18. 12. From Sexual Desire to Excitement: The Role of Sexual Fantasy (1998)
  19. 13. Gender Differences in Sexual Behaviors and Fantasies in a College Population (1989)
  20. 14. Associations Between Sexual Experiences and Fantasies in a Nonpatient Population: A Preliminary Study (1992)
  21. Part IV. Sex and Gender: Female Sexuality and Femininity and Male Sexuality and Masculinity
  22. 15. The Erotic Transference in Women and in Men: Differences and Consequences (1985)
  23. 16. Female Sexual Identity: The Impact of the Adolescent Experience (1985)
  24. 17. Some Mysteries of Gender: Rethinking Masculine Identifications in Heterosexual Women (1998)
  25. 18. Male Sexuality and Power (1986)
  26. 19. The Omni-Available Woman and Lesbian Sex: Two Fantasy Themes and Their Relationship to the Male Developmental Experience (1986)
  27. Part V. The Impact of Culture
  28. 20. Harry Benjamin and the Birth of a Shared Cultural Fantasy (1972/1997)
  29. References
  30. Index