Maria Gurevich
Biographic Data
| ID | 658663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Gurevich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurevich |
| SIGNATURE | GUREVICH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Difference or dysfunction: Deconstructing desire in the DSM-5 diagnosis of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
This article answers ongoing calls within critical sexuality scholarship to explore how constructions of women’s bodies influence and are influenced by broader sociocultural contexts. Specifically, this article offers a conceptual analysis of female sexual desire, highlighting the deeply political nature of its pathologization. We briefly explore dominant definitions and models of sexual desire to highlight the erasure of embodied desire as an im…
Securing sex: Embattled masculinity and the pressured pursuit of women’s bodies in men’s online sex advice
This article describes findings from a study examining men’s sex advice centered on cultivating masculinity markers by obtaining sex from multiple women. Employing a feminist poststructuralist framework, discourse analysis is used to investigate how casual sex with multiple women is positioned as a crucial requirement in accruing social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice media. Three interpretive repertoires emerged: (a…
(Re)producing the ‘natural man’ in men’s online advice media: Achieving masculinity through embodied and mental mastery
This paper focuses on analysis of one component of a larger study exploring men’s online sex advice. The parent project examines the use of casual sex with multiple women as a mandatory obligation in accumulating social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice outlets. While earlier analysis focused on the adoption of militaristic language and the sexual use of women’s bodies to defend male privilege among PUA members, the pr…
Sexual dysfunction or sexual discipline? Sexuopharmaceutical use by men as prevention and proficiency
In the first decade following Viagra’s appearance, feminist and critical scholars documented the sexuopharmaceutical expansion of definitions of erectile dysfunction and its target consumer. As we approach Viagra’s 30th anniversary, while feminist scholarship on the medicalization of sexuality flourishes, the impact of erectile medication has received much less attention. This paper (re)casts a critical lens on popularized erectile medication sex…
Sexually progressive and proficient: Pornographic syntax and postfeminist fantasies
Mainstream and pornographic images and practice norms are becoming increasingly blurred (Paasonen et al., 2007), while sexual entrepreneurship discourses ( Gill, 2009 ) promote ongoing sexual self-transformation. Women’s sexuality, specifically, is expected to be proficient and perpetually practising. We examine what the mainstreaming of pornography means for sexual desire and agency among 27 young women negotiating heterosex. Participants’ accou…
‘The body that cannot be contained’: Queering mainstream psychology’s gay male body dissatisfaction imperative
A sizable body of mainstream social psychological body image research suggests that gay men are more dissatisfied with their bodies than heterosexual men (Morrison et al., 2004). However, much of this research has been criticized for producing explanatory models that pathologize gay men by foregrounding homosexuality, irrespective of broader sociohistorical factors, as the source of gay male body dissatisfaction ( Filiault, 2010 ; Filiault and Dr…
Propping up pharma’s (natural) neoliberal phallic man: Pharmaceutical representations of the ideal sexuopharmaceutical user
Contemporary social theorists emphasise the cultural quest for authenticity under conditions of increasing artificiality. Within this context, the body is commonly treated as an 'unfinished' surface requiring ongoing transformation to fulfil identity obligations. In this paper, we examine one such identity authentication project in the form of marketing of men's sexuopharmaceuticals. We use online pharmaceutical advertising for four approved sexu…
Responsible or reckless men? Sexuopharmaceutical messages differentiated by sexual identity of users
Affective conjunctions: Social norms, semiotic circuits, and fantasy
Postfeminist and neoliberal discourses that characterize sexual meanings, messages, and mandates in a contemporary Western context invoke choice, liberation, and mastery to propel a perpetually performing female sexuality. Agency and autonomy have been co-opted as robust scaffolding for regulatory regimes, such that practices of mandatory self-objectification and self-surveillance are rebranded as playful practices arising from a range of prefere…
Managed Not Missing: Young Women’s Discourses of Sexual Desire Within a Postfeminist Heterosexual Marketplace
Our article describes findings from a project exploring sexual agency and desire among young women, focusing on the negotiation of sexuality within relationship contexts. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we used discourse analysis to examine semi-structured, audio-taped interviews with 39 Canadian young women (aged 18–26). Three related interpretive repertoires were identified, namely, (a) Sex as Relationship Hygiene (i.e., beneficial…
Postpartum depression in refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada: A critical health psychology perspective
Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs in the world. Just over 48 percent of Canadian refugees are women, with many of them of childbearing age and pregnant. Refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada face a five times greater risk of developing postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Mainstream psychological approaches to postpartum depression emphasize individual-level risk factors (e.g. hormones, thoughts, …
Querying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory
Bisexuality's capacity to reveal and disassemble existing regimes of power and knowledge that shape gendered and sexed discourses, identities and politics would appear to make it an obvious ally to queer theory and politics. Yet queer theory has variously sidestepped, marginalized and even arguably erased bisexuality. This article focuses on the epistemic dilemmas presented by bisexuality. The theoretical (not to mention psychic) machinations req…
Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities: Sexuality and HIV-Positive Women
Very little is known about the sexuality of women who are living with HIV, outside the context of risk prevention and education. Available research in the first-world context shows that, although most women continue to be sexually active following diagnosis, decreased sexual functioning is very common and more prevalent than among HIV-positive men. The present multi-site Canadian study is concerned with the ways in which women’s sexuality is tran…
Stress Response Syndromes in Women Undergoing Mammography: A Comparison of Women With and Without a History of Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence, severity, and correlates of acute stress responses in women undergoing diagnostic mammographic surveillance and to explore the moderating impact of physician support on these symptoms. METHODS: Sixty-six female breast cancer outpatients (at least 12 months after diagnosis and primary treatment) and 69 healthy women undergoing mammographic surveillance completed measures of: acute s…
(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in testicular cancer
Health Care Services for Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Some Canadian Data
Specific health needs and health services for lesbian and bisexual women are relatively invisible in existing research, with little Canadian data on these topics. To redress such gaps, data were selectively analyzed from a larger study with 98 lesbian/bisexual women living in a Maritime Province in Canada. As part of a semistructured interview, women were asked to indicate whether a particular health care service was important to them. General ph…
(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality
This article, based on an ongoing Canadian study of women who self-identify as bisexual, explores what it means to claim a bisexual identity. Semi-structured interviews with 22 women were analyzed using thematic decomposition, an analytic technique that combines discursive approaches with thematic analysis. Women in this study constructed their sexuality as a succession of interrelated impediments and imperatives that act in tandem to both prohib…
Feminist ideology as a predictor of body dissatisfaction in women
Body Composition Correlates of Weight Dissatisfaction and Dietary Restraint in Young Women
Hassles, health, and personality
College undergraduates (N = 211) responded to a "decontaminated" hassles scale plus measures of trait anxiety, reactivity, perceived stress, psychiatric symptomatology, and minor physical ailments. All but the anxiety and reactivity scales were time referenced to the past month. Major findings were as follows: (a) Hassles and trait anxiety both contributed positively to perceived stress, jointly accounting for 58% of the variance; (b) hassles and…
The Inventory of College Students' Recent Life Experiences: A decontaminated hassles scale for a special population
Feminist ideology as a predictor of body dissatisfaction in women
(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality
This article, based on an ongoing Canadian study of women who self-identify as bisexual, explores what it means to claim a bisexual identity. Semi-structured interviews with 22 women were analyzed using thematic decomposition, an analytic technique that combines discursive approaches with thematic analysis. Women in this study constructed their sexuality as a succession of interrelated impediments and imperatives that act in tandem to both prohib…
Managed Not Missing: Young Women’s Discourses of Sexual Desire Within a Postfeminist Heterosexual Marketplace
Our article describes findings from a project exploring sexual agency and desire among young women, focusing on the negotiation of sexuality within relationship contexts. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we used discourse analysis to examine semi-structured, audio-taped interviews with 39 Canadian young women (aged 18–26). Three related interpretive repertoires were identified, namely, (a) Sex as Relationship Hygiene (i.e., beneficial…
(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in testicular cancer
Securing sex: Embattled masculinity and the pressured pursuit of women’s bodies in men’s online sex advice
This article describes findings from a study examining men’s sex advice centered on cultivating masculinity markers by obtaining sex from multiple women. Employing a feminist poststructuralist framework, discourse analysis is used to investigate how casual sex with multiple women is positioned as a crucial requirement in accruing social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice media. Three interpretive repertoires emerged: (a…
Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities: Sexuality and HIV-Positive Women
Very little is known about the sexuality of women who are living with HIV, outside the context of risk prevention and education. Available research in the first-world context shows that, although most women continue to be sexually active following diagnosis, decreased sexual functioning is very common and more prevalent than among HIV-positive men. The present multi-site Canadian study is concerned with the ways in which women’s sexuality is tran…
Difference or dysfunction: Deconstructing desire in the DSM-5 diagnosis of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
This article answers ongoing calls within critical sexuality scholarship to explore how constructions of women’s bodies influence and are influenced by broader sociocultural contexts. Specifically, this article offers a conceptual analysis of female sexual desire, highlighting the deeply political nature of its pathologization. We briefly explore dominant definitions and models of sexual desire to highlight the erasure of embodied desire as an im…
Querying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory
Bisexuality's capacity to reveal and disassemble existing regimes of power and knowledge that shape gendered and sexed discourses, identities and politics would appear to make it an obvious ally to queer theory and politics. Yet queer theory has variously sidestepped, marginalized and even arguably erased bisexuality. This article focuses on the epistemic dilemmas presented by bisexuality. The theoretical (not to mention psychic) machinations req…
Body Composition Correlates of Weight Dissatisfaction and Dietary Restraint in Young Women
Hassles, health, and personality
College undergraduates (N = 211) responded to a "decontaminated" hassles scale plus measures of trait anxiety, reactivity, perceived stress, psychiatric symptomatology, and minor physical ailments. All but the anxiety and reactivity scales were time referenced to the past month. Major findings were as follows: (a) Hassles and trait anxiety both contributed positively to perceived stress, jointly accounting for 58% of the variance; (b) hassles and…
Postpartum depression in refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada: A critical health psychology perspective
Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs in the world. Just over 48 percent of Canadian refugees are women, with many of them of childbearing age and pregnant. Refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada face a five times greater risk of developing postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Mainstream psychological approaches to postpartum depression emphasize individual-level risk factors (e.g. hormones, thoughts, …
(Re)producing the ‘natural man’ in men’s online advice media: Achieving masculinity through embodied and mental mastery
This paper focuses on analysis of one component of a larger study exploring men’s online sex advice. The parent project examines the use of casual sex with multiple women as a mandatory obligation in accumulating social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice outlets. While earlier analysis focused on the adoption of militaristic language and the sexual use of women’s bodies to defend male privilege among PUA members, the pr…
Sexual dysfunction or sexual discipline? Sexuopharmaceutical use by men as prevention and proficiency
In the first decade following Viagra’s appearance, feminist and critical scholars documented the sexuopharmaceutical expansion of definitions of erectile dysfunction and its target consumer. As we approach Viagra’s 30th anniversary, while feminist scholarship on the medicalization of sexuality flourishes, the impact of erectile medication has received much less attention. This paper (re)casts a critical lens on popularized erectile medication sex…
The Inventory of College Students' Recent Life Experiences: A decontaminated hassles scale for a special population
Hassles, health, and personality
College undergraduates (N = 211) responded to a "decontaminated" hassles scale plus measures of trait anxiety, reactivity, perceived stress, psychiatric symptomatology, and minor physical ailments. All but the anxiety and reactivity scales were time referenced to the past month. Major findings were as follows: (a) Hassles and trait anxiety both contributed positively to perceived stress, jointly accounting for 58% of the variance; (b) hassles and…
Body Composition Correlates of Weight Dissatisfaction and Dietary Restraint in Young Women
Feminist ideology as a predictor of body dissatisfaction in women
(Con)Tested Identities: Bisexual Women Reorient Sexuality
This article, based on an ongoing Canadian study of women who self-identify as bisexual, explores what it means to claim a bisexual identity. Semi-structured interviews with 22 women were analyzed using thematic decomposition, an analytic technique that combines discursive approaches with thematic analysis. Women in this study constructed their sexuality as a succession of interrelated impediments and imperatives that act in tandem to both prohib…
Health Care Services for Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Some Canadian Data
Specific health needs and health services for lesbian and bisexual women are relatively invisible in existing research, with little Canadian data on these topics. To redress such gaps, data were selectively analyzed from a larger study with 98 lesbian/bisexual women living in a Maritime Province in Canada. As part of a semistructured interview, women were asked to indicate whether a particular health care service was important to them. General ph…
Stress Response Syndromes in Women Undergoing Mammography: A Comparison of Women With and Without a History of Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence, severity, and correlates of acute stress responses in women undergoing diagnostic mammographic surveillance and to explore the moderating impact of physician support on these symptoms. METHODS: Sixty-six female breast cancer outpatients (at least 12 months after diagnosis and primary treatment) and 69 healthy women undergoing mammographic surveillance completed measures of: acute s…
(Dis)embodying gender and sexuality in testicular cancer
Disciplining Bodies, Desires and Subjectivities: Sexuality and HIV-Positive Women
Very little is known about the sexuality of women who are living with HIV, outside the context of risk prevention and education. Available research in the first-world context shows that, although most women continue to be sexually active following diagnosis, decreased sexual functioning is very common and more prevalent than among HIV-positive men. The present multi-site Canadian study is concerned with the ways in which women’s sexuality is tran…
Querying Theory and Politics: The Epistemic (Dis)Location of Bisexuality within Queer Theory
Bisexuality's capacity to reveal and disassemble existing regimes of power and knowledge that shape gendered and sexed discourses, identities and politics would appear to make it an obvious ally to queer theory and politics. Yet queer theory has variously sidestepped, marginalized and even arguably erased bisexuality. This article focuses on the epistemic dilemmas presented by bisexuality. The theoretical (not to mention psychic) machinations req…
Affective conjunctions: Social norms, semiotic circuits, and fantasy
Postfeminist and neoliberal discourses that characterize sexual meanings, messages, and mandates in a contemporary Western context invoke choice, liberation, and mastery to propel a perpetually performing female sexuality. Agency and autonomy have been co-opted as robust scaffolding for regulatory regimes, such that practices of mandatory self-objectification and self-surveillance are rebranded as playful practices arising from a range of prefere…
Managed Not Missing: Young Women’s Discourses of Sexual Desire Within a Postfeminist Heterosexual Marketplace
Our article describes findings from a project exploring sexual agency and desire among young women, focusing on the negotiation of sexuality within relationship contexts. Adopting a social constructionist framework, we used discourse analysis to examine semi-structured, audio-taped interviews with 39 Canadian young women (aged 18–26). Three related interpretive repertoires were identified, namely, (a) Sex as Relationship Hygiene (i.e., beneficial…
Postpartum depression in refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada: A critical health psychology perspective
Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs in the world. Just over 48 percent of Canadian refugees are women, with many of them of childbearing age and pregnant. Refugee and asylum-seeking women in Canada face a five times greater risk of developing postpartum depression than Canadian-born women. Mainstream psychological approaches to postpartum depression emphasize individual-level risk factors (e.g. hormones, thoughts, …
Responsible or reckless men? Sexuopharmaceutical messages differentiated by sexual identity of users
Sexually progressive and proficient: Pornographic syntax and postfeminist fantasies
Mainstream and pornographic images and practice norms are becoming increasingly blurred (Paasonen et al., 2007), while sexual entrepreneurship discourses ( Gill, 2009 ) promote ongoing sexual self-transformation. Women’s sexuality, specifically, is expected to be proficient and perpetually practising. We examine what the mainstreaming of pornography means for sexual desire and agency among 27 young women negotiating heterosex. Participants’ accou…
‘The body that cannot be contained’: Queering mainstream psychology’s gay male body dissatisfaction imperative
A sizable body of mainstream social psychological body image research suggests that gay men are more dissatisfied with their bodies than heterosexual men (Morrison et al., 2004). However, much of this research has been criticized for producing explanatory models that pathologize gay men by foregrounding homosexuality, irrespective of broader sociohistorical factors, as the source of gay male body dissatisfaction ( Filiault, 2010 ; Filiault and Dr…
Propping up pharma’s (natural) neoliberal phallic man: Pharmaceutical representations of the ideal sexuopharmaceutical user
Contemporary social theorists emphasise the cultural quest for authenticity under conditions of increasing artificiality. Within this context, the body is commonly treated as an 'unfinished' surface requiring ongoing transformation to fulfil identity obligations. In this paper, we examine one such identity authentication project in the form of marketing of men's sexuopharmaceuticals. We use online pharmaceutical advertising for four approved sexu…
(Re)producing the ‘natural man’ in men’s online advice media: Achieving masculinity through embodied and mental mastery
This paper focuses on analysis of one component of a larger study exploring men’s online sex advice. The parent project examines the use of casual sex with multiple women as a mandatory obligation in accumulating social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice outlets. While earlier analysis focused on the adoption of militaristic language and the sexual use of women’s bodies to defend male privilege among PUA members, the pr…
Sexual dysfunction or sexual discipline? Sexuopharmaceutical use by men as prevention and proficiency
In the first decade following Viagra’s appearance, feminist and critical scholars documented the sexuopharmaceutical expansion of definitions of erectile dysfunction and its target consumer. As we approach Viagra’s 30th anniversary, while feminist scholarship on the medicalization of sexuality flourishes, the impact of erectile medication has received much less attention. This paper (re)casts a critical lens on popularized erectile medication sex…
Securing sex: Embattled masculinity and the pressured pursuit of women’s bodies in men’s online sex advice
This article describes findings from a study examining men’s sex advice centered on cultivating masculinity markers by obtaining sex from multiple women. Employing a feminist poststructuralist framework, discourse analysis is used to investigate how casual sex with multiple women is positioned as a crucial requirement in accruing social status and esteem in men’s online Pick-Up Artist (PUA) advice media. Three interpretive repertoires emerged: (a…
Difference or dysfunction: Deconstructing desire in the DSM-5 diagnosis of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
This article answers ongoing calls within critical sexuality scholarship to explore how constructions of women’s bodies influence and are influenced by broader sociocultural contexts. Specifically, this article offers a conceptual analysis of female sexual desire, highlighting the deeply political nature of its pathologization. We briefly explore dominant definitions and models of sexual desire to highlight the erasure of embodied desire as an im…
Psychology (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Human sexuality (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)