
The Science/Fiction of Sex
Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex
By: Annie Potts
Paperback | 27 November 2002 | Edition Number 1
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These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, are discussed in The Science/Fiction of Sex.
Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction, femininity and masculinity, and safer sex practice.
Potts asks men and women about their actual experiences of heterosex. This interview material, combined with excerpts from sexological and medical texts and features from film and television, draws attention to the ways in which western cultural constructs influence our ideas and experiences of the body, sex, and gender. Potts also uses deconstructive theory as a textual tool, concentrating on how binary oppositions such as inside/outside and mind/body impact on our understandings of heterosex, and affect the power relations between women and men. She also examines how the radical postmodern theories of the body and sexuality proposed by Irigaray, Lyotard, and Deleuze and Guattari disrupt such dualistic modes of understanding and experiencing sexualized bodies.
The Science/Fiction of Sex will be of interest to those studying women and psychology as well as gender studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, sociology, philosophy, public health and education.
Industry Reviews
Potts' analysis of current trends in sexology are on the mark. She offers an encyclopaedic overview of popular and scholarly writings together with original research that will be well received in sexuality, women's studies and cultural studies classes. - Leonore Tiefer, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University of Medicine
The Science/Fiction of Sex is original, witty, extremely clever ... it has some remarkable chapters, such as the one on masculinity which I would rate among the best I've ever read. The analysis of the alternative erotic-theoretical systems proposed by Irigaray and Deleuze are first-class pieces of writing, daring and intelligent. - Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies, Utrecht University
Annie Potts has opened up new ways of understanding the open potential of all forms of sexuality - an exciting and crucial project for feminists of the future. - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
Annie Potts has opened up new ways of understanding the open potential of all forms of sexuality - an exciting and crucial project for feminists of the future. - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
The Science/Fiction of Sex is original, witty, extremely clever ... It has some remarkable chapters, such as the one on masculinity, which I would rate among the best I've ever read. The analysis of the alternative erotic-theoretical systems proposed by Irigaray and Deleuze are first-class pieces of writing ... daring and intelligent. - Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies, Utrecht University
ISBN: 9780415257312
ISBN-10: 041525731X
Series: Women and Psychology
Published: 27th November 2002
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 306
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.63
Weight (kg): 0.48
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