Women And Desire

Author : Polly Young-Eisendrath
Publisher : Chiron Publications
ISBN 13 : 1685031234
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Desire written by Polly Young-Eisendrath and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Young-Eisendrath´s Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted was first published by Harmony Books in 1999. Since then, it has become a classic read for those readers– to use a cinematographic expression – who want to use analytical psychology to shed light on what women want. This book, when first published, was described (and still is) as “provocative and vital.” More than 20 years after its publication, this book still shows effectively “how to break out of this double bind so that” women “can encounter the challenges of choice and responsibility for our own desires.” The author “wisely uses mythological and personal stories to help us take control of our sexual, relational, material, and spiritual lives.” Therefore, “If you feel confused, resentful, or trapped in a life that does not seem to be fully yours, then you can find a clear path to your true self, once and for all, with the help of Women and Desire.” This book is the second of the series titled Jungianeum: Re-Covered Classics in Analytical Psychology curated by Stefano Carpani.

Author : Polly Young-Eisendrath
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967461
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Desire written by Polly Young-Eisendrath and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/146844 Contradictory and provocative pathways crisscross the terrain of gender among contemporary psychologists and psychoanalysts. Clearing a path through this terrain, Polly Young-Eisendrath describes and illustrates issues of gender and desire among women and men. Young-Eisendrath introduces three world views: premodern, modern, and postmodern. Then, she calls our attention to how we shape reality and clearly explains how a lived postmodern philosophy is essential for us to understand ourselves and how we can change. Next, she discusses gender and sex differences in terms of how the former are flexible and the latter are not. The division of the human community into the two exclusive groups of male and female has important psychological implications on both conscious and unconscious levels. Most depth psychological theories of gender and sex have been androcentric, taking males as the norm for health, and have failed to develop a full understanding of desire, opposition, and idealization between the sexes. One major theme in a depth psychology of gender is that of Woman as the object of desire. The Greek myth of Pandora deftly illustrates the problem of female beauty: as the "desire-awakening maiden" Pandora is powerful but empty. The link between female beauty, power, and evil teaches us about the consequences of female appearance as a commodity to be used among men. Zeus placed the curse of Pandora on humankind, as a punishment for the theft of fire from the gods, and we are still living with the effects of this patriarchal curse. The double bind of female beauty (damned if you engage it and damned if you don't) must be lifted from the male-female relationships in this time of growing equality and reciprocity between the sexes. For women and men to reach their full potential of development as individuals and in relationships, they must break Pandora's curse and free themselves from the myth of the power of female beauty. In working to liberate us from the curse of Pandora, Young-Eisendrath has developed a theory of desire: desire contains within it a primordial absence, a sense that something is missing. When we come to understand the nature of desire itself we can be liberated from it domination. Drawing on experiences from culture, everyday life, and psychotherapy, Polly Young-Eisendrath's Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora provides a full engagement with the intricacies and complexities of gender, desire, and liberation for women and men in a postmodern world.

Author : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782112588
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do Women Want? written by Daniel Bergner and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this headline-making book, Daniel Bergner turns everything we thought we knew about women's desire on its head. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with renowned behavioural scientists, sexologists, psychologists and everyday women, Daniel Bergner asks: - Do women really crave intimacy and emotional connection? - Are women more disposed to sex with strangers or multiple partners than either science or society have ever let on? - And is 'the fairer sex' actually more sexually aggressive and anarchic than men?

Author : Alexandra Jamieson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476765049
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Food, and Desire written by Alexandra Jamieson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle in pre-publication: Reclaim your body, consume what you crave, get the life & sex you deserve.

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830850
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Author : Lisa M. Diamond
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026247
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Fluidity written by Lisa M. Diamond and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is love “blind” when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Lisa M. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.This perspective clashes with traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a large group of women over time. She has tracked one hundred women for more than ten years as they have emerged from adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: “I fall in love with the person, not the gender,” say some respondents.Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding of women’s sexuality—and of the central importance of love.

Author : Rosalind Coward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Female Desire written by Rosalind Coward and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniele Flamenbaum
Publisher : Aeon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781912807642
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman Desired, Woman Desiring written by Daniele Flamenbaum and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about women's sexuality and sexual fulfilment that crosses several disciplines and paradigms, and is truly innovative and radical. The book is written for a popular audience--women (and men) who wish to explore the deep roots of their own sexuality in order to find more ease, creativity, and satisfaction in their sexual relations. Included are numerous examples from the author's long experience as a gynecologist who found she had to go beyond the limitations of her Western medical training in order to explain the recurrent gynecological ailments of her women clients. She found successful perspectives and remedial practices through Chinese medicine, psychoanalysis, and a transgenerational approach.

Author : Vera S. Maass
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387331697
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Complexities of Women's Sexual Desire written by Vera S. Maass and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on a problem frequently encountered by sex and family therapists, psychologists and primary care physicians: women’s sexual desire or lack thereof. The book covers both research and clinical interventions, and outlines factors that contribute to the decline in sexual desire in women of various ages. The text describes therapeutic steps which can be undertaken with the guidance of a therapist or by the woman herself.

Author : Carol Dyhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078387
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heartthrobs written by Carol Dyhouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us as much about the history of women as about masculine icons. When girls were supposed to be shrinking violets, passionate females risked being seen as 'unbridled', or dangerously out of control. Change came slowly, and young women remained trapped in double-binds. You may have needed a husband in order to survive, but you had to avoid looking like a gold-digger. Sexual desire could be dangerous: a rash guide to making choices. Show attraction too openly and you might be judged 'fast' and undesirable. Education and wage-earning brought independence and a widening of cultural horizons. Young women in the early twentieth century showed a sustained appetite for novel-reading, cinema-going, and the dancehall. They sighed over Rudolph Valentino's screen performances, as tango-dancer, Arab tribesman, or desert lover. Contemporary critics were sniffy about 'shop-girl' taste in literature and in men, but as consumers, girls had new clout. In Heartthrobs, social and cultural historian Carol Dyhouse draws upon literature, cinema, and popular romance to show how the changing position of women has shaped their dreams about men, from Lord Byron in the early nineteenth century to boy-bands in the early twenty-first. Reflecting on the history of women as consumers and on the nature of fantasy, escapism, and 'fandom', she takes us deep into the world of gender and the imagination. A great deal of feminist literature has shown women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes of women.