How to Have Amazing Sex (And Become Your Best Self in the Process)
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From: Decolonize Self-Care
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Chapter 1 discussed women’s work, the gendered origins of multitasking, as well as sex as self-care. The authors detailed the idea that women are inherently prone to multitasking, therefore they need self-help practices to be their "best selves" and other capitalist messages. The authors also discussed modern messages around meditation, mindfulness, sex therapy, and sexual optimization, and how these practices are targeted at white, cishet women that contradict the Buddhist origins of mindfulness practices.
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Contributors
Alyson K. Spurgas
Alyson K. Spurgas is associate professor of Sociology and affiliated faculty in the Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Spurgas researches, writes, and teaches about the sociology of trauma, the politics of desire, and technologies of care from an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist perspective. They are also the author of Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize. Alyson lives in Brooklyn, New York, with their amazing partner and cat.
Zoë Meleo-Erwin
Zoë Meleo-Erwin is a qualitative sociologist and former assistant professor of public health. In 2022, she left academia to pursue a career as a user experience researcher in the tech industry. As a scholar, her work focused on the meanings of health and illness, health decision-making, experiences of embodiment, and the ways in which digital technologies facilitate the creation of both identity and community around health and illness.
