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Cover -- Half Title -- The Etherized Wife -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- How The Research Began -- How The Book Is Organized -- Part 1 -- 1. Freud, Dora, And Compulsory Sexuality -- Dora's Story-an Overview -- Freud's Sexual Fixations -- Dora's Dreams -- A Masturbation Interrogation -- 2. The Frigidity Epidemic -- The New Definition -- A Master Lens -- Women Are To Blame -- Measuring Frigidity -- Constructing Normal Women -- Part 2 -- 3. Masters And Johnson And The Primacy Of Intercourse -- Women's Liberation-on Men's Terms -- Intercourse Ueber Alles Freudians Versus Masters And Johnson -- A Sensory Subject -- 4. Male Identification -- Helen Singer Kaplan -- The Myth Of Equivalency -- Men's Sexual Sensitivity -- A Wife In Bondage -- Sexual Anorexia -- A Prisoner Of Sex -- 5. Docile Bodies -- Systematic Desensitization -- The Intercourse Imperative -- When Sex Therapists Prescribe Intercourse -- Part 3 -- 6. Doublethink -- Motivational Context Not Needed -- The Language Of Sensory Experience -- Strategic Ignorance -- Women's Sexual Desire Is Complicated -- Prioritizing Sexual Coercion From An Earlier Time -- 7. Men's Free Will When A Man Feels Zero Desire -- A Wife Must Adapt -- Double-consciousness -- Masculine Exceptionalism -- 8. Women's Duty -- She Takes One For The Team -- Who Owns Mrs. D.'s Vagina? -- Denying The Possibility Of Sexual Coercion -- Denying The Reality Of Sexual Coercion -- 9. Sex Therapy Without Male Privilege And Power -- A Focus On Inequality -- A Focus On The Relationship -- Externalizing The Problem -- 10. Discontinuities, Deviations, And Reversals -- The Velvet Glove -- Training Her Softly -- Foregrounding The Relationship -- Giving Women A Voice -- Conclusion -- How Does Sex Therapy Survive? Can Sex Therapy Change? -- Where Do We Go From Here? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Leslie Margolin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.