Sexual Salvation ― Affirming Women's Sexual Rights and Pleasures

What is the nature and purpose of women's sexuality? How does women's sexuality relate to femininity, masculinity, and violence against women? What effect does sex role socialization have on women's sexual relations? To what extent have sexual behavior, expectations for intimacy, and sex research been shaped by a male-dominant society? These questions and more are addressed in Sexual Salvation, an open-minded and comprehensive celebration of cultural and sexual diversity. Relying on her 21-years' experience as a feminist sex-researcher, clinical psychologist, and college professor, the author illuminates the wide-ranging experiences women have had with sexuality and intimacy. Linking new feminist scholarship with emerging social science and therapist work, she makes contributions to understanding women's sexuality clear, logical, and appealing for a broad group of readers--women and men alike.

NAOMI B. McCORMICK, named a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, now teaches Family Studies, Women's Studies, and Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa. A Fellow in Rational-Emotive Therapy, she is also a practicing clinical psychologist who specializes in feminist psychotherapy. Dr. McCormick is the 25th president and a fellow of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, and has been admitted to the International Academy of Sex Research. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Sex Research, consulting editor ofWomen & Therapy, and The Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, and is the editor and co-author ofExploring Choices: Psychology of Adjustment (1989), Changing Boundaries: Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior (1983), as well as over 50 journal articles and book chapters.