For all its vaunted attention to sexuality, queer theory has had
relatively little to say about sex, the material and psychic
practices through which erotic gratification is sought. In
"Orgasmology," Annamarie Jagose takes orgasm as her queer scholarly
object. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from medical imaging to
pornographic visualization, from impersonal sexual publics to
domestic erotic intimacies, Jagose traces the career of orgasm
across the twentieth century.
Along the way, she examines marriage manuals of the 1920s and
1930s, designed to teach heterosexual couples how to achieve
simultaneous orgasms; provides a queer reading of behavioral
modification practices of the 1960s and 1970s, aimed at
transforming gay men into heterosexuals; and demonstrates how
representations of orgasm have shaped ideas about sexuality and
sexual identity.
A confident and often counterintuitive engagement with feminist
and queer traditions of critical thought, "Orgasmology" affords
fresh perspectives on not just sex, sexual orientation, and
histories of sexuality, but also agency, ethics, intimacy,
modernity, selfhood, and sociality. As modern subjects, we presume
we already know everything there is to know about orgasm. This
elegantly argued book suggests that orgasm still has plenty to
teach us.
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