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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-57131-220-4
Pages: 195
Publish Date: Dec, 1998
Genre: Nonfiction
Arousal
Bodies and Pleasure
BY Martha Roth
Melding personal history with the ideas of thinkers ranging from Michel Foucault and Freud to Catharine MacKinnon and Stephen Jay Gould, Martha Roth attempts in Arousal to paint a portrait of the web of sexual stimuli surrounding us, as well as to understand our difficulty in discussing and confronting our true needs. Surveying her own sexual history and the experiences of her family, Roth notes that we are impeded in our understanding of our sexuality by a language of sex that separates our bodies from our minds and our spirit. Absorbing, intimate, thoughtful, and provocative, Arousal is a plea for a future in which our compartmentalization of sex falls away, leaving us with more of what matters: in Foucault’s terms, “bodies and pleasures.”
