Women, sex, and madness : notes from the edge / Breanne Fahs.

Abingdon, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

viii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Part 1. Women explain things to me. 1. Men, through women's eyes -- 2. The other third shift? Women's emotion work in their sexual relationships -- 3. Slippery desire: women's qualitative accounts of their vaginal lubrication and wetness -- Part 2. Veering and queering. 4. Killjoy's Kastle and the hauntings of queer/lesbian feminism -- 5. The politics of turning rape into "nonconsensual sex" -- 6. Genital anxieties: using critical sexuality studies ot examine women's attitudes about the vulva and vagina -- Part 3. On the couch. 7. Compulsory penetration? A sex therapy romp -- 8. Are women people? The lusty and chaotic world of sex addiction -- 9. Therapy without bodies, or why fleshiness matters -- Part 4. All riled up. 10. Warning: capitalism is destroying our sex lives -- 11. "Freedom to" and "freedom from": a new vision for sex-positive politics -- 12. Counter-erotics: sex as a form of resistance.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209 - 214) and index