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The Quest for Sexual Health - How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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The Quest for Sexual Health - How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health
and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven
Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the
debates that swirl around it. Since the 1970s, health
professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and
commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something
called "sexual health." Under this expansive banner, a wide array
of programs have been launched, organizations founded, initiatives
funded, products sold-and yet, no book before this one asks: What
does it mean to be sexually healthy? When did people conceive of a
form of health called sexual health? And how did it become the
gateway to addressing a host of social harms and the reimagining of
private desires and public dreams? Conjoining "sexual" with
"health" changes both terms: it alters how we conceive of sexuality
and transforms what it means to be healthy, prompting new
expectations of what medicine can provide. Yet the ideal of
achieving sexual health remains elusive and open-ended, and the
benefits and costs of promoting it are unevenly distributed across
genders, races, and sexual identities. Rather than a thing apart,
sexual health is intertwined with nearly every conceivable topical
debate-from sexual dysfunction to sexual violence, from
reproductive freedom to the practicalities of sexual contact in a
pandemic. In this book Steven Epstein analyzes the rise,
proliferation, uptake, and sprawling consequences of sexual health
activities, offering critical tools to assess those consequences,
expand capacities for collective decision making, and identify
pathways that promote social justice.
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