T Cacchioni
Biographic Data
| ID | 10878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Cacchioni |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Cacchioni |
| SIGNATURE | CACCHIONI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9580-4447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome
This article contributes to the burgeoning qualitative literature on experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) by considering PCOS in relation to post-structural theory on gender, sexuality, embodiment, and aesthetic labour. Although to some degree culturally contingent, interview accounts with 30 people diagnosed with PCOS suggest that infertility, hairiness, acne, and/or fatness are a difficult combination with heterosexuality and a sou…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
Why Medicalization? Introduction to the Special Issue on the Medicalization of Sex
This special issue grows out of the need to bring into focus the historical and sociocultural contextualization of sex to the sexological community. The specific focus is on analyzing how medicalization is affecting many areas of sexual life and discourse, but the larger goal is to help situate sexuality studies in its broadest perspective. Articles will be of general interest to those interested in interdisciplinary scholarship; the specific art…
The Medicalization of Women's Sexual Pain
The medicalization of women's sexual problems under the overall rubric of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) has been thoroughly critiqued by feminist scholars, health practitioners, and sex therapists. However, there has been much less commentary on the medicalization of women's sexual pain-currently, a subset of an official FSD diagnosis. This article critically examines interdisciplinary understandings and ways of addressing sexual pain. It analy…
Treating women's sexual difficulties
This paper seeks to illuminate the interactions of medics and other healthcare practitioners with women's bodies by looking at intervention in the area of women's sexual problems or 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' (FSD). Drawing on data produced in the first empirical study to date of women's accounts of their experiences of seeking and receiving treatment for perceived sexual difficulties, we analyse two treatments for women's sexual difficulties in…
Heterosexuality and 'the Labour of Love'
It is increasingly taken for granted that `successful heterosexuality' is contingent upon having a `normal' and `healthy' sex life. The recent popularity of the diagnostic label `Female Sexual Dysfunction' (FSD) is evidence that this social climate has fostered the (re)medicalization of women's sexual problems. In response to feminist concern over the growing use of the FSD label, this article considers data gathered as part of a qualitative, emp…
Why Medicalization? Introduction to the Special Issue on the Medicalization of Sex
This special issue grows out of the need to bring into focus the historical and sociocultural contextualization of sex to the sexological community. The specific focus is on analyzing how medicalization is affecting many areas of sexual life and discourse, but the larger goal is to help situate sexuality studies in its broadest perspective. Articles will be of general interest to those interested in interdisciplinary scholarship; the specific art…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
The Medicalization of Women's Sexual Pain
The medicalization of women's sexual problems under the overall rubric of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) has been thoroughly critiqued by feminist scholars, health practitioners, and sex therapists. However, there has been much less commentary on the medicalization of women's sexual pain-currently, a subset of an official FSD diagnosis. This article critically examines interdisciplinary understandings and ways of addressing sexual pain. It analy…
Treating women's sexual difficulties
This paper seeks to illuminate the interactions of medics and other healthcare practitioners with women's bodies by looking at intervention in the area of women's sexual problems or 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' (FSD). Drawing on data produced in the first empirical study to date of women's accounts of their experiences of seeking and receiving treatment for perceived sexual difficulties, we analyse two treatments for women's sexual difficulties in…
Heterosexuality and 'the Labour of Love'
It is increasingly taken for granted that `successful heterosexuality' is contingent upon having a `normal' and `healthy' sex life. The recent popularity of the diagnostic label `Female Sexual Dysfunction' (FSD) is evidence that this social climate has fostered the (re)medicalization of women's sexual problems. In response to feminist concern over the growing use of the FSD label, this article considers data gathered as part of a qualitative, emp…
Treating women's sexual difficulties
This paper seeks to illuminate the interactions of medics and other healthcare practitioners with women's bodies by looking at intervention in the area of women's sexual problems or 'Female Sexual Dysfunction' (FSD). Drawing on data produced in the first empirical study to date of women's accounts of their experiences of seeking and receiving treatment for perceived sexual difficulties, we analyse two treatments for women's sexual difficulties in…
Why Medicalization? Introduction to the Special Issue on the Medicalization of Sex
This special issue grows out of the need to bring into focus the historical and sociocultural contextualization of sex to the sexological community. The specific focus is on analyzing how medicalization is affecting many areas of sexual life and discourse, but the larger goal is to help situate sexuality studies in its broadest perspective. Articles will be of general interest to those interested in interdisciplinary scholarship; the specific art…
The Medicalization of Women's Sexual Pain
The medicalization of women's sexual problems under the overall rubric of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) has been thoroughly critiqued by feminist scholars, health practitioners, and sex therapists. However, there has been much less commentary on the medicalization of women's sexual pain-currently, a subset of an official FSD diagnosis. This article critically examines interdisciplinary understandings and ways of addressing sexual pain. It analy…
Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it
Adding to a small but growing feminist literature, this article critically examines popular, contemporary American sex manuals from a feminist social constructionist perspective, focusing specifically on how these manuals construct gender and sexual norms. With notable exceptions, the majority of these manuals are geared toward white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, and cisgendered audiences. We argue that in addition to positioning sexu…
The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome
This article contributes to the burgeoning qualitative literature on experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) by considering PCOS in relation to post-structural theory on gender, sexuality, embodiment, and aesthetic labour. Although to some degree culturally contingent, interview accounts with 30 people diagnosed with PCOS suggest that infertility, hairiness, acne, and/or fatness are a difficult combination with heterosexuality and a sou…
Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Medicalization (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Sexual function and dysfunction studies (3 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (3 works)