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Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures Hardcover - 1994

by Naomi B. McCormick

How does women's sexuality relate to femininity and violence against women? What effect does sex role socialization have on women's sexual relations? To what extent have sexual behavior, expectations, and research been shaped by a male-dominant society? These questions and more are addressed in this open-minded celebration of sexual diversity.


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What is the nature and purpose of women's sexuality? How does women's sexuality relate to femininity, masculinity, and violence against women? What effect does sex role socialization have on women's sexual relations? To what extent have sexual behavior, expectations for intimacy, and sex research been shaped by a male-dominant society? These questions and more are addressed in Sexual Salvation, an open-minded and comprehensive celebration of cultural and sexual diversity. Relying on her 21-years' experience as a feminist sex-researcher, clinical psychologist, and college professor, the author illuminates the wide-ranging experiences women have had with sexuality and intimacy. Linking new feminist scholarship with emerging social science and therapist work, she makes contributions to understanding women's sexuality clear, logical, and appealing for a broad group of readers--women and men alike. The Cold War might be over but the Women's Sex and Culture War continues in full force. Women argue with men and each other. Politically conservative individuals argue among themselves and most of all with feminists. But feminists are far from united: one group argues persuasively that women are men's sexual victims and require additional protection; the opposing feminist group argues just as articulately that women deserve sexual autonomy, not increased restrictions under the guise of protection. Sexual Salvation, written by Naomi McCormick, a distinguished feminist sex researcher, offers relief from divisive, extremist rhetoric. In her undogmatic, meticulously researched, and beautifully written book, McCormick acknowledges the contributions of all feminists to the affirmation of women's sexual rights and pleasures. Here for the first time is a book about and for all women, not just the white, middle-class, heterosexual, able-bodied women addressed by most popular authors (including many feminists). This is an inclusive and sensitive book that touches upon the sexuality of all women: women of color, women of all sexual orientations, women of all ages, women who live with disabilities and chronic illness, poor and working class women--as well as women from socially privileged groups. More valuable still, McCormick backs up her ideas with a solid grasp of multidisciplinary scholarship. Scholars and general readers alike will find Sexual Salvation remarkable for its seamless integration of sex research and feminist and psychotherapeutic literature; and--most compelling--for its honesty.

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The Cold War might be over but the Women's Sex and Culture War continues in full force. Women argue with men and each other. Politically conservative individuals argue among themselves and most of all with feminists. But feminists are far from united: one group argues persuasively that women are men's sexual victims and require additional protection; the opposing feminist group argues just as articulately that women deserve sexual autonomy, not increased restrictions under the guise of protection. Sexual Salvation, written by Naomi McCormick, a distinguished feminist sex researcher, offers relief from divisive, extremist rhetoric. In her book, McCormick acknowledges the contributions of all feminists to the affirmation of women's sexual rights and pleasures.

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  • Title Sexual Salvation: Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures
  • Author Naomi B. McCormick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994-09-30
  • ISBN 9780275943592 / 0275943593
  • Weight 1.48 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.37 x 1.16 in (24.33 x 16.18 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women - Sexual behavior, Sexual ethics for women
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94006378
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.708

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/1994, Page 1249
  • Library Journal, 01/01/1995, Page 0

About the author

NAOMI B. McCORMICK, named a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, now teaches Family Studies, Women's Studies, and Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa. A Fellow in Rational-Emotive Therapy, she is also a practicing clinical psychologist who specializes in feminist psychotherapy. Dr. McCormick is the 25th president and a fellow of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and has been admitted to the International Academy of Sex Research. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Sex Research, consulting editor of Women & Therapy, and The Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, and is the editor and co-author of Exploring Choices: Psychology of Adjustment (1989), Changing Boundaries: Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior (1983), as well as over 50 journal articles and book chapters.
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