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Alyson K. Spurgas

is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's & Gender Studies at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois. She has been involved with feminist organizing, research, and community-based sexual health education for the last fifteen years in Baltimore, Washington D.C., New York City, and now in St. Louis. She is currently working on a book on histories of sex therapy and the psychiatric study of sexual desire, with a specific focus on discourses about gender that are produced therein, and how those ideas affect people's sexual interactions.

Essays & Reviews

Solving Desire

By Alyson K. SpurgasMarch 9, 2016
Why does “female Viagra” target women’s minds when men’s treatments for sexual dysfunction target their physical performance?
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