Still resisting after all these years: An update on sexuo-medicalization and on the New View Campaign to challenge the medicalization of women's sexuality

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-196

  Tiefer, Leonore ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 77951682605     PISSN: 14681994     EISSN: 14681749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681991003649495     Document Type: Article

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