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Understanding Women's Love and Desire
Harvard University Press
April 2009
On Sale: April 15, 2009
452 pages
ISBN: 0674032268
EAN: 9780674032262
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Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just
might be. This unsettling and original book offers a radical
new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female
sexuality. Lisa Diamond argues that for some women, love and
desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid,
changing as women move through the stages of life, various
social groups, and, most important, different love
relationships. This perspective clashes with
traditional views of sexual orientation as a stable and
fixed trait. But that view is based on research conducted
almost entirely on men. Diamond is the first to study a
large group of women over time. She has tracked one-hundred
women for more than ten years as they have emerged from
adolescence into adulthood. She summarizes their experiences
and reviews research ranging from the psychology of love to
the biology of sex differences. Sexual Fluidity
offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and
out of love with men or women at different times in their
lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: "I fall in love
with the person, not the gender," say some respondents.
Sexual Fluidity offers a new understanding
of women's sexuality--and of the central importance of love.
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