{"product_id":"woman-desired-woman-desiring-how-to-re-energise-sex-and-desire-9781912807642","title":"Woman Desired, Woman Desiring: How to Re-energise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fascinating exploration of sexuality, pleasure and desire. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDr. Flaumenbaum, a gynaecologist and acupuncturist, draws on more than forty years of experience to explain how women today build their sexuality, why pleasure or even desire is so seldom present, and importantly how to remedy it.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHer pioneering approach brings together gynaecology, Chinese medicine, psychoanalysis and transgenerational theory.Despite the sexual revolution of the 1970s, the prohibition of sexual pleasure and joy still exists, carried down from previous generations.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDr. Flaumenbaum explores how this plays out, how sexuality is formed, the difference and complementarity between being a mother and a woman and how love and feelings are not enough to switch on the sexual connection.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWoman Desired, Woman Desiring\u003c\/em\u003e provides case studies, covering a breadth of topics from gynaecological ailments to inherited social and cultural burdens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER ONE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We love men like we love our mothers\u003cbr\u003e The first object of love\u003cbr\u003e Loving like a child\u003cbr\u003e The woman and the mother in us\u003cbr\u003e Why do we regress when we love?\u003cbr\u003e Maternal love is not sexual\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dynamic of sexual anatomy\u003cbr\u003e The circulation of sexual energy\u003cbr\u003e The role of the uterus in sexual pleasure\u003cbr\u003e The clitoris, the hymen and the vagina\u003cbr\u003e The uterus, the fallopian tubes and the ovaries\u003cbr\u003e Hormonal control\u003cbr\u003e The lesser pelvis, the hips and the perineum\u003cbr\u003e Breasts and breastfeeding\u003cbr\u003e Changes and transformations in a woman's body\u003cbr\u003e Setting sexual energy in motion\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The barrier of fire: recurrent disorders\u003cbr\u003e Acute ailments, recurrent ailments\u003cbr\u003e Looking for the origin\u003cbr\u003e Fire in the genitals: blocked sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Chinese medicine\u003cbr\u003e Disrupting the repetition\u003cbr\u003e Making love\u003cbr\u003e Teaching our genitals about pleasure\u003cbr\u003e The life force that inhabits us\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How little girls construct their sexuality and how daughters come undone when their mothers die\u003cbr\u003e Expecting a little girl\u003cbr\u003e At birth, the child becomes the magnetic catalyst\u003cbr\u003e The power of names and surnames\u003cbr\u003e Breast-feeding\u003cbr\u003e Building the baby girl's sexuality\u003cbr\u003e The dyad stage\u003cbr\u003e Wanting to know the true story\u003cbr\u003e Finding self-recognition\u003cbr\u003e The father's role and the difference between sexes\u003cbr\u003e Telling a little girl that later her genitals will welcome a man's\u003cbr\u003e Parental intimacy\u003cbr\u003e “But where was I before?”\u003cbr\u003e The bottomless pit: falling into depression\u003cbr\u003e Quest for meaning and renewal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER FIVE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The gynaecological family tree\u003cbr\u003e Painful menstruation\u003cbr\u003e “Phantom” disorders\u003cbr\u003e Premenstrual syndrome\u003cbr\u003e Gynaecological ailments and their origins\u003cbr\u003e Symptoms generated by family line disorders\u003cbr\u003e Sterility and infertility\u003cbr\u003e Unwanted pregnancies\u003cbr\u003e The importance of knowing one's genealogy\u003cbr\u003e The effects of building a genosociogram\u003cbr\u003e Care\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Desire\u003cbr\u003e Inherited social and cultural burdens\u003cbr\u003e First change: women think (1945)\u003cbr\u003e Second change: birth control (1965)\u003cbr\u003e Third change: sexual liberation?\u003cbr\u003e “Third change: sexual liberation?\u003cbr\u003e Parental fulfilment\u003cbr\u003e Continued ignorance about sexuality\u003cbr\u003e Desire: the energy that makes the encounter possible\u003cbr\u003e When desire is inhibited\u003cbr\u003e The body is not invaginated\u003cbr\u003e How to break the cycle of transgenerational repetition\u003cbr\u003e The starting point of a man's sexual desire is the genitals, while a woman's is in her heart, between her two breasts\u003cbr\u003e Woman and their desire: floating heads\u003cbr\u003e So, what is desire?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What is making love?\u003cbr\u003e Courtship displays\u003cbr\u003e Creating a shared space: foreplay and the encounter between the genitals\u003cbr\u003e Fondling the breasts\u003cbr\u003e Fixation on the clitoris\u003cbr\u003e Desired, but also desiring\u003cbr\u003e Benefitting from what we do not have\u003cbr\u003e The co-penetration of the genitals\u003cbr\u003e Creating the phallus\u003cbr\u003e Feeling the uterus and maintaining the fire\u003cbr\u003e Being fully present to oneself and to the other at the same time\u003cbr\u003e Finding words again\u003cbr\u003e Pathways of sexual energy\u003cbr\u003e Completeness and surpassing oneself\u003cbr\u003e Projecting oneself into the other's body\u003cbr\u003e Jouissance: sexual joy\u003cbr\u003e What is an orgasm?\u003cbr\u003e Coming down after making love\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eINDEX\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043203645783,"sku":"9781912807642","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781912807642.jpg?v=1750957411","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/woman-desired-woman-desiring-how-to-re-energise-sex-and-desire-9781912807642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}