Big pharma, women, and the labour of love
Pharmaceutical industry Sexual disorders Women Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological Drug Industry Sexual Behavior Sociological Factors Women's Health
University of Toronto Press
2015
EISBN 9781442694101
Preface : testifying at the US Food and Drug Administration.
Introduction : the labour of love in the sexual pharmaceutical era.
The rise and decline of big pharma's "sexual revolution".
Treating women's sexual pain : biomedicalized, demedicalized, and do-it-yourself approaches.
The limits of normative heterosex.
Sex work : a labour of love.
Refusing heteronormative sex work.
A woman's work is never done.
Epilogue : the sexual pharmaceutical industry and its discontents.
Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?
Introduction : the labour of love in the sexual pharmaceutical era.
The rise and decline of big pharma's "sexual revolution".
Treating women's sexual pain : biomedicalized, demedicalized, and do-it-yourself approaches.
The limits of normative heterosex.
Sex work : a labour of love.
Refusing heteronormative sex work.
A woman's work is never done.
Epilogue : the sexual pharmaceutical industry and its discontents.
Cacchioni moves beyond the search for a sexual pharmaceutical drug for women to ask a broader question: how does the medicalization of female sexuality already affect women's lives?
