Leonore Tiefer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonore Tiefer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonore |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiefer |
| SIGNATURE | TIEFER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Feminism, Sexism, and Sexual Harassment in Sexology
Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality
The modern view of sexuality as a fundamental drive that is very individualized, deeply gendered, central to personality and intimate relationships, separate from reproduction, and lifelong would be quite unrecognizable to people living in different civilizations. Kenneth Plummer contrasted the popular drive-based view of human sexuality with the social constructionist dramaturgic metaphor of sexual script. Histories and anthropologies of sexuali…
Sex is not a Natural Act and Other Essays
Introduction: An Uphill Battle Sex Is Not A Natural Act: Theme And Variations Am I Normal? The Question of Sex Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality Sexual Biology and the Symbolism of the Natural Historical, Scientific, Clinical, and Feminist Criticisms of the Human Sexual Response Cycle Model Applications of Social Constructionism to Research on Gender and Sexuality Popular Writings On The Theme Six Months at the Daily News Th…
More about sexualities activisms please, we need it
Unpacking the popularity of a paper on feigning sexual pleasure: Consider both sexual politics and 21st-century profits
Missed Opportunities in the Patient-Focused Drug Development Public Meeting and Scientific Workshop on Female Sexual Dysfunction Held at the FDA, October 2014
There were numerous missed opportunities at the October 2014 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting on female sexual dysfunction (FSD). They included opportunities to hear from a diverse range of patients and to engage in evidence-based discussions of unmet medical needs, diagnostic instruments, trial end points, and inclusion criteria for clinical trials. Contributions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth …
Medicine, Sexual Norms, and the Role of the DSM
Sexuality is tricky territory-for individuals, couples, society-and for professionals. Some aspects are harmful, criminal, and stigmatized, while others are central to identity, deeply pleasurable, and bonding. That's quite a range. It's hard to make that argument for any other topic in medicine, and it predicts some unusual complexities in dealing with sexual complaints
My Cautionary Breast Cancer Tale
A narrative of my first months as a breast cancer patient offers insight into how a feminist meets a biomedical crisis. Instead of consulting other women and feminist texts, I initially immersed myself in scientific information-gathering, only realizing later that decision-making is best done with feminist resources as well as medical experts. The new cancer centers are staffed with enthusiastic young women professionals who practice an autonomy-…
Exposé of Pinkwashing: Couldn’t be Timelier
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…
Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies
This article complicates recent discussions about the expanding zones and influences of medicalization and biomedicalization on sexuality and sex therapy by contextualizing them with competing nonmedicalizing trends. These latter developments include an escalating nonexpert commercial sexuality sector on the Internet, as well as a long history of anarchic and democratizing social politics, such as “the counterculture” and “free love movements.” W…
Activism on the medicalization of sex and female genital cosmetic surgery by the New View Campaign in the United States
The New View Campaign is a grassroots initiative begun in 1999 to challenge the over-medicalization of sex in the wake of publicity following the release of Viagra. This paper describes the history of the campaign and its activities, which started with analysing the construction of female sexual dysfunction, and moved on to develop a critical understanding of sexuality as a market for the pharmaceutical industry to exploit. The campaign has also …
Misconstruing Sex Therapy’s Dilemmas: The Need for Sexualwissenschaft, Sex Education, and Primary Prevention
Prognosis: More Pharmasex
The New View in Activism and Academics 10 Years On
This special issue of Feminism & Psychology presents a sampling of the type of work stimulated by The New View Campaign against the medicalization of sex, c. 2008. In this introduction, I offer a brief history of the New View Campaign (1999—2008) and show how the articles in this special issue illustrate many of its major themes. In closing, I suggest future directions for New View-inspired research and theory
Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Freakish or Inevitable? Analysis from Medical Marketing, Bioethics, and Feminist Theory
Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) refers to new treatment/enhancement technologies that have engendered much controversy. Examining FGCS through the lenses of bioethics, feminist theory and medical marketing situates it within makeover culture and deregulatory politics, and links it to feminist debates about making choices within constrained contexts. This article points out numerous analogies between the creation of FGCS and the new sexuali…
The Viagra AdVenture: Masculinity, media, and the performance of sexual health
The Viagra AdVenture: Masculinity, media, and the performance of sexual health." , 9(5), pp. 549–550
The Viagra Phenomenon
Contemporary constructions of sexuality can change direction faster than a competitive ballroom dancer and it can be hard to keep track of all the new developments. Regulatory regimes abound and even proliferate yet mass media proclaim the end of the double standard and the advent of sexual emancipation. In 1998, in yet another major twist, a new sexuopharmaceutical era was inaugurated by governmental approval of Viagra, a drug to treat impotence…
Dyspareunia Is the Only Valid Sexual Dysfunction and Certainly the Only Important One
IV. Ahead of its Time - Even Now - Kitzinger as Cassandra: A Commentary on The Social Construction of Lesbianism
VI. Biological Politics (Read: (Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology
VI. Biological Politics (Read: (Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology
Arriving at a “New View” of Women's Sexual Problems: Background, Theory, and Activism
This essay offers an all-embracing narrative of the “new view” project to explain how and why a feminist critique of current sex problem nomenclature, an alternative vision, and an activist campaign have emerged since 1999. The story begins with 15 years of urology-promoted medicalization of men's sexuality and the building of a female market near the end of the 1990s. The Food and Drug Administration role is illuminated by the author's advisory …
A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now
(2001). A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now? The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 89-96
II. Agreeing to Disagree: Multiple Views on Gender Laws and Transsex
A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now
(2001). A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now? The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 89-96
The Medicalization of Sexuality: Conceptual, Normative, and Professional Issues
(1996). The Medicalization of Sexuality: Conceptual, Normative, and Professional Issues. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 252-282
Sexology and the pharmaceutical industry: The threat of co‐optation
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has become very interested in sex as a focus for drug development and marketing. Many sexologists have embraced this new trend, particularly because of greatly welcomed research funding and increased professional opportunities. However, this new relationship may be a Faustian bargain, and certainly raises serious ethical, political, theoretical, and research problems which must be openly discussed. Thi…
Arriving at a “New View” of Women's Sexual Problems: Background, Theory, and Activism
This essay offers an all-embracing narrative of the “new view” project to explain how and why a feminist critique of current sex problem nomenclature, an alternative vision, and an activist campaign have emerged since 1999. The story begins with 15 years of urology-promoted medicalization of men's sexuality and the building of a female market near the end of the 1990s. The Food and Drug Administration role is illuminated by the author's advisory …
Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Freakish or Inevitable? Analysis from Medical Marketing, Bioethics, and Feminist Theory
Female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) refers to new treatment/enhancement technologies that have engendered much controversy. Examining FGCS through the lenses of bioethics, feminist theory and medical marketing situates it within makeover culture and deregulatory politics, and links it to feminist debates about making choices within constrained contexts. This article points out numerous analogies between the creation of FGCS and the new sexuali…
Historical, Scientific, Clinical and Feminist Criticisms of “The Human Sexual Response Cycle” Model
This chapter argues that the human sexual response cycle (HSRC) model of sexuality is flawed from scientific, clinical, and feminist points of view. The sexuality that is measured is taken to be the definition of sexuality itself. The HSRC model has had a profound impact on clinical sexology through its role as the centerpiece of contemporary diagnostic nomenclature. The chapter examines how sexual problems are linked to mental disorders in the D…
The Medicalization of Impotence: Normalizing Phallocentrism
Today, phallocentrism is perpetuated by a flourishing medical construction that focuses exclusively on penile erections as the essence of men's sexual function and satisfaction. This article describes how this medicalization is promoted by urologists, medical industries, mass media, and various entrepreneurs. Many men and women provide a ready audience for this construction because of masculine ideology and gender socialization. While there may b…
A Brief History of the Association for Women in Psychology: 1969–1991
The Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) was founded in 1969 by American Psychological Association (APA) members who were frustrated with sexism in psychology, in the APA, and at the 1969 APA convention itself. The activism of the 1960s, together with the new women's liberation movement, gave the founders tools and justification for a new organization. This article, the first published AWP history, describes the founding circumstances, early…
In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality
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…
Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies
This article complicates recent discussions about the expanding zones and influences of medicalization and biomedicalization on sexuality and sex therapy by contextualizing them with competing nonmedicalizing trends. These latter developments include an escalating nonexpert commercial sexuality sector on the Internet, as well as a long history of anarchic and democratizing social politics, such as “the counterculture” and “free love movements.” W…
A Feminist Critique of the Sexual Dysfunction Nomenclature
No abstract available for this article
Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy
No formulaic feminist sex therapy can do justice to the diversity of women's sexual problems and goals. We can start, however, by abandoning biological reductionism as enshrined in the DSM while at the same time offering every woman an opportunity for a thorough, educational, physical consultation. Feminist sex therapy must encompass two domains of insight and skill. The first, for everyone, includes Feminism 101, corrective genital physiology ed…
VI. Biological Politics (Read: (Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology
II. Agreeing to Disagree: Multiple Views on Gender Laws and Transsex
Three crises facing sexology
New perspectives in sexology: From rigor (mortis) to richness 1
“Rigor” is a term which has been used in sexology to imply that there is a hierarchy of methodologies and approaches to sex research. This paper argues that “rigor” is actually a term used rhetorically in an attempt to achieve professional legitimacy in a field perennially threatened because of its politically relevant subject matter. Rather than worry about a seat at the table, we need to look more towards the postmodern richness of diverse and …
Adherence to recommendations and improvement over time in men with erectile dysfunction
The New View in Activism and Academics 10 Years On
This special issue of Feminism & Psychology presents a sampling of the type of work stimulated by The New View Campaign against the medicalization of sex, c. 2008. In this introduction, I offer a brief history of the New View Campaign (1999—2008) and show how the articles in this special issue illustrate many of its major themes. In closing, I suggest future directions for New View-inspired research and theory
Unpacking the popularity of a paper on feigning sexual pleasure: Consider both sexual politics and 21st-century profits
Missed Opportunities in the Patient-Focused Drug Development Public Meeting and Scientific Workshop on Female Sexual Dysfunction Held at the FDA, October 2014
There were numerous missed opportunities at the October 2014 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting on female sexual dysfunction (FSD). They included opportunities to hear from a diverse range of patients and to engage in evidence-based discussions of unmet medical needs, diagnostic instruments, trial end points, and inclusion criteria for clinical trials. Contributions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth …
Exposé of Pinkwashing: Couldn’t be Timelier
Sexual Scripts
Love and Love Sickness: The Science of Sex, Gender Difference, and Pair-Bonding. John Money
Sexual Excitement/Sexual Peace: The Place of Masturbation in Adult Relationships
In Pursuit of the Perfect Penis: The Medicalization of Male Sexuality
Adherence to recommendations and improvement over time in men with erectile dysfunction
A Feminist Critique of the Sexual Dysfunction Nomenclature
No abstract available for this article
Historical, Scientific, Clinical and Feminist Criticisms of “The Human Sexual Response Cycle” Model
This chapter argues that the human sexual response cycle (HSRC) model of sexuality is flawed from scientific, clinical, and feminist points of view. The sexuality that is measured is taken to be the definition of sexuality itself. The HSRC model has had a profound impact on clinical sexology through its role as the centerpiece of contemporary diagnostic nomenclature. The chapter examines how sexual problems are linked to mental disorders in the D…
A Brief History of the Association for Women in Psychology: 1969–1991
The Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) was founded in 1969 by American Psychological Association (APA) members who were frustrated with sexism in psychology, in the APA, and at the 1969 APA convention itself. The activism of the 1960s, together with the new women's liberation movement, gave the founders tools and justification for a new organization. This article, the first published AWP history, describes the founding circumstances, early…
New perspectives in sexology: From rigor (mortis) to richness 1
“Rigor” is a term which has been used in sexology to imply that there is a hierarchy of methodologies and approaches to sex research. This paper argues that “rigor” is actually a term used rhetorically in an attempt to achieve professional legitimacy in a field perennially threatened because of its politically relevant subject matter. Rather than worry about a seat at the table, we need to look more towards the postmodern richness of diverse and …
The Sexual Brain
Three crises facing sexology
The Medicalization of Impotence: Normalizing Phallocentrism
Today, phallocentrism is perpetuated by a flourishing medical construction that focuses exclusively on penile erections as the essence of men's sexual function and satisfaction. This article describes how this medicalization is promoted by urologists, medical industries, mass media, and various entrepreneurs. Many men and women provide a ready audience for this construction because of masculine ideology and gender socialization. While there may b…
Doing What Comes Socio-Culturally
The Medicalization of Sexuality: Conceptual, Normative, and Professional Issues
(1996). The Medicalization of Sexuality: Conceptual, Normative, and Professional Issues. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 252-282
You Say You Want A Revolution
Subversive Dialogues: Theory in Feminist Therapy, Laura S. Brown. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 258 pp., $33.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-465-08322–6
Towards a Feminist Sex Therapy
No formulaic feminist sex therapy can do justice to the diversity of women's sexual problems and goals. We can start, however, by abandoning biological reductionism as enshrined in the DSM while at the same time offering every woman an opportunity for a thorough, educational, physical consultation. Feminist sex therapy must encompass two domains of insight and skill. The first, for everyone, includes Feminism 101, corrective genital physiology ed…
Response to testosterone injection study and fisher's concerns
Insights into Social Construction from Toilets, Radio Shows and Muslim Headscarves
II. Agreeing to Disagree: Multiple Views on Gender Laws and Transsex
Sexology and the pharmaceutical industry: The threat of co‐optation
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has become very interested in sex as a focus for drug development and marketing. Many sexologists have embraced this new trend, particularly because of greatly welcomed research funding and increased professional opportunities. However, this new relationship may be a Faustian bargain, and certainly raises serious ethical, political, theoretical, and research problems which must be openly discussed. Thi…
A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now
(2001). A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now? The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 89-96
Arriving at a “New View” of Women's Sexual Problems: Background, Theory, and Activism
This essay offers an all-embracing narrative of the “new view” project to explain how and why a feminist critique of current sex problem nomenclature, an alternative vision, and an activist campaign have emerged since 1999. The story begins with 15 years of urology-promoted medicalization of men's sexuality and the building of a female market near the end of the 1990s. The Food and Drug Administration role is illuminated by the author's advisory …
IV. Ahead of its Time - Even Now - Kitzinger as Cassandra: A Commentary on The Social Construction of Lesbianism
VI. Biological Politics (Read: (Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology
VI. Biological Politics (Read: (Propaganda) Remains Alive and Well in Sexology
Psychology (35 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Gender Studies (24 works) · Human sexuality (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Gender Studies (16 works) · Law (16 works) · Sexual function and dysfunction studies (15 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (14 works) · Law (13 works)