Beschreibung:
In this long-awaited work, the queer theorist Annamarie Jagose demonstrates that attention to orgasm as an object of queer and feminist thought reveals much about gender, agency, history, and modernity.
Preface xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction. Orgasm and the Long Twentieth Century 11. About Time: Simultaneous Orgasm and Sexual Normalcy 402. Straight Woman / Gay Man: Orgasm and the Double Blind of Modern Sex 783. Behaviorism's Queer Trace: Sexuality and Orgasmic Reconditioning 1064. Face Off: Artistic and Medico-Sexological Visualizations of Orgasm 1355. Counterfeit Pleasures: Fake Orgasm and Queer Agency 175Coda. Orgasm's End 207Works Cited 217Index 239