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  • Anderson, M.  (2005)
    Is lack of sexual desire a disease? Is testosterone the cure? Medscape Ob/Gyn & Women's Health.
    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/512218
  • Bancroft, J, Loftus, J, & Long, J S.  (2003)
    Distress about sex: A national survey of women in heterosexual relationships. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32: 193-208
  • Braun, V & Tiefer, L  (2010)
    The "Designer Vagina" and the pathologisation of female genital diversity: Interventions for change. Radical Psychology, vol 8, issue 1.
    http://www.radicalpsychology.org/vol8-1/brauntiefer.html
  • Cacchioni, Thea  (2007)
    Heterosexuality and 'the labour of love': A contribution to recent debates on female sexual dysfunction. Sexualities, 10(3): 299-320.
  • Cotton, A.  (2003)
    The impact of a human sexuality college course according to gender: Comparisons of the 1970's and the 1990's. Sex Education, 3, (3), 271-280.
  • Drew, J.  (2003)
    The myth of female sexual dysfunction and its medicalization. Sexualities, Evolution & Gender, 5, 89-96.
  • Fishman Jennifer R  (2007)
    Making Viagra: From Impotence to Erectile Function. In Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (eds) Medicating Modern America: Prescription drugs in history. New York: NYU Press (pp. 229-252)
  • Fishman, J.  (2004)
    Manufacturing desire: The commodification of Female sexual Dysfunction. Social Studies of Science, 34, 187-218.
  • Goberna, J, Frances, L, Pauli, A, et al  (2009)
    Sexual experiences during the climacteric years: What do women think about it? Maturitas, 62: 47-52.
  • Grace, V Potts, A Gavey, N & Vares T  (2006)
    The Discursive Condition of Viagra. Sexualities, 9: 295-314
  • Graham, C. A.  (2010)
    The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, (2), TK
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/a3393180w1x47539/
  • Graham, C. A., Sanders, S. A., Milhausen, R. R., & McBride, K. R.  (2004)
    Turning on and turning off: A focus group study of the factors that affect women's sexual arousal. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 33, 527-538
  • Hartley, H.  (2006)
    The 'pinking' of Viagra culture: Drug industry efforts to create and repackage sex drugs for women. Sexualities, 9, 363-378.
  • Hartley, H. & Tiefer, L.  (2003)
    Taking a biological turn: The push for a "female Viagra" and the medicalization of women's sexual problems. Women's Studies Quarterly, 31, 42-54.
  • Henderson, AW, Lehavot, K, and Simoni, JM  (2009)
    Ecological models of sexual satisfaction among lesbian/bisexual and heterosexual women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38: 50-65.
  • Hicks, K. M.  (2006)
    Online CME course on "The New View Approach to Women's Sexual Problems." Medscape.
    http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/4705
  • Kaplan, I. J. 
    Teaching a New View of Women's Sexual Problems. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 1, 195-200.
  • Katz, A.  (2007)
    Sexuality counseling (chapter 22, pp.235-237). In Breaking the Silence on Cancer and Sexuality: A handbook for healthcare providers. Pittsburgh, PA: Oncology Nursing Society.
  • King, Michael, Holt, Victoria, and Nazareth, Irwin  (2007)
    Women's views of their sexual difficulties: Agreement and disagreement with clinical diagnoses. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 36: 281-288.
  • Koch, P., Mansfield, P. K., Thurau, D. & Carey, M.  (2005)
    "Feeling frumpy": The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women. Journal of Sex Research, 42: 215-223.
  • Leanne Nicholls  (2005)
    Constructing Female Sexuality: How Heterosexual Women's Accounts of Sex and Sexual Difficulties Correspond with Contemporary Classification Systems for Female Sexual Problems. PhD thesis, University of East London. Study compares New View and DSM classification systems in light of women's self reported sexual problems. New View fits women's self reports better.
  • Loe, M.  (2004)
    The search for the female Viagra (Ch. 5). In The rise of Viagra: How the little blue pill changed sex in America. New York: New York University Press.
  • Marshall, B. L.  (2006)
    The new virility: Viagra, male aging, and sexual function. Sexualities, 9, 345-362.
  • McHugh, Maureen C.  (2006)
    What do women want? A new view of women's sexual problems. Sex Roles (54) 361-369.
  • McHugh, Maureen C.  (2006)
    Women and sex at midlife: Desire, dysfunction and diversity. In Varda Muhlbauer and Joan C. Chrisler (Eds) Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives. Springer, pp 26-52.
  • Moynihan, R.  (2003)
    The making of a disease: Female sexual dysfunction. British Medical Journal, 326, 45-47.
    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7379/45
  • Moynihan, R.  (2005)
    The Marketing of a Disease: Female sexual dysfunction. British Medical Journal, 330, 192-194.
    http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7484/192
  • Moynihan, R., & Cassels, A.  (2005)
    Subverting the selling: Female sexual dysfunction (Chapter 10). In Selling sickness: How the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients. New York: Nation Books.
  • Plante, R. F.  (2006)
    Screwing with sex: Some politics of sexualities (Ch. 9). In Sexualities in context: A social perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
  • Pomerance, L.  (2006)
    Sexuality (Ch. 9). In Boston Women's Health Collective (Ed.), Our bodies, ourselves: Menopause. New York: Touchstone.
  • Potts, A.  (2004)
    Deluze on Viagra (Or, what can a 'Viagra-body' do?). Body & Society, 10, 17-36.
  • Potts, A. & Tiefer, L. (Eds).  (2006)
    Viagra culture. Special Issue of Sexualities, 9(3).
  • Potts, A., Gavey, N., Grace, V. M., & Vares, T.  (2003)
    The downside of Viagra: Women's experiences and concerns. Sociology of Health & Illness, 25, 697-719.
  • Potts, A., Grace, V., Gavey, N., & Vares, T.  (2004)
    Viagra stories: Challenging 'erectile dysfunction'. Social Science & Medicine, 59: 489-499.
  • Potts, A., Grace, V., Gavey, N., & Vares, T.  (2006)
    'Sex for life'? Men's counter-stories of 'erectile dysfunction', male sexuality and aging. Sociology of Health & Illness, 28(3): 306-329.
  • Potts, A., Grace, V., Gavey, N., & Vares, T.  (2004)
    Viagra stories: Challenging 'erectile dysfunction'. Social Science & Medicine, 59: 489-499.
  • Potts, Annie  (2008)
    The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different "Problems," New Drugs - More Pressures? In Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian (Eds.) Contesting Illness: Processes and Practices (University of Toronto Press), Pp. 259-280.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2002)
    Beyond the medical model of women's sexual problems: A campaign to resist the promotion of 'female sexual dysfunction.' Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 17,127- 135.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2003)
    Taking back women's sexuality. In the Family. 8, 14-17.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2003)
    Female sexual dysfunction (FSD): Witnessing social construction in action. Sexuality, Evolution, and Gender, 5, 33-35.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2003)
    A recent debate on whether female sexual dysfunction is a pharmaceutical industry creation. British Medical Journal electronic rapid response. July 12, 2003.
    http://bmj.com:80/cgi/eletters/326/7379/45
  • Tiefer, L.  (2003)
    The Pink Viagra story. Radical Philosophy, # 121, 2-5.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2004)
    Challenging the new medicalization of women's sexual problems. (in German. Offensive gegen die Medikalisierung weiblicher Sexualbrobleme) Familiendynamik, 2(2), 121-138.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2005)
    (September, 26) Omissions, Biases, and Nondisclosed Conflicts of Interest: Is There a Hidden Agenda in the NAMS Position Statement? Medscape General Medicine, Contemporary Issues in Ob/Gyn & Women's Health.
    http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/513099
  • Tiefer, L.  (2006)
    Female Sexual Dysfunction: A Case Study of Disease Mongering and Activist Resistance. Public Library of Science Med 3(4): e178.
    http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/ journal.pmed.0030178
  • Tiefer, L.  (2006)
    The Viagra phenomenon. Sexualities. 9: 273-294
  • Tiefer, L.  (2006)
    Online CME course on "A New View Approach to Men's Sexual Problems." Medscape.
    http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5737
  • Tiefer, L.  (2007)
    Sex and disease-mongering: A special case? Monash Bioethics Review. 25, 28-35.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2000)
    The medicalization of women's sexuality: There's a new market, but who will benefit? American J. Nursing, 100, 11.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2001)
    The selling of 'female sexual dysfunction'. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 27, 625-628.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2001)
    A new view of women's sexual problems: Why new? Why now? Journal of Sex Research, 38, 89-96.
  • Tiefer, L.  (2002)
    Arriving at a "new view" of women's sexual problems Background, analysis, activism. Women & Therapy, 24, 63-98.
  • Tiefer, L. (Ed.)  (2008)
    Special Issue of Feminism and Psychology on the New View Campaign against the Medicalization of Sex. Includes TWELVE papers on historical, theoretical, empirical, media, and application perspectives using the New View. Feminism and Psychology, November, 2008, vol 18 no 4.
    http://newviewcampaign.org/whatsnew_detail.asp?id=7
  • Tiefer, L., Tavris, C. & Hall, M.  (2002)
    Beyond dysfunction: A new view of women's sexual problems. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 28, 225 232.
  • Vares, T., & Braun, V.  (2006)
    Spreading the word, but what word is that? Viagra and male sexuality in popular culture. Sexualities, 9, 315-332.
  • Wood, J., Koch, P., & Mansfield, P.  (2006)
    Women's sexual desire: A feminist critique. Journal of Sex Research, 43, 236-244.
  • Working Group on a New View of Women's Sexual Problems  (2004)
    A New View of Women's Sexual Problems (Ch. 29). In P. J. Kaplan & L. Cosgrove (Eds.), Bias in psychiatric diagnosis. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.

 

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