Orgasmic bodies : The orgasm in contemporary western culture
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 7125132
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137304377
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137304353
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Care, Health and Emotional Wellbeing
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Focussing on the cultural representation of orgasm, Frith’s single-authored monograph provides a comprehensive account of how sexual imperatives are gendered, and social contexts that foregrounds feminine self-actualisation, self-improvement and female empowerment, framed within wider debates about postfeminism and neoliberalism. The book meets the criteria for double-weighting in that it is a longer-form output reflecting a sustained research effort; it synthesises a large body of material in thematising and analysing scientific, humanities and social science academic literature and research on orgasm; and consequently, the author provides an in-depth multi-perspective account of the orgasm as embedded in shifting social and cultural contexts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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