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Dear Isabelle, There is some critical discussion of Masters and Johnson and that tradition of sex research in Hera Cook, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex and Contraception, 1800-1975, chapter 11. Other historical research includes Janice M. Irvine. Disorders of desire: sex and gender in modern American sexology, Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1990. I would recommend Robinson for insight into how this research looked in the historical context in its own time - Paul Robinson. The modernization of sex, New York:Harper & Row, 1976. I would strongly recommend these which you may well be aware of as they are not historical - Elizabeth Anne Lloyd. The case of the female orgasm: bias in the science of evolution, Harvard University Press, 2005. M. Sheets-Johnstone. The roots of power : animate form and gendered bodies, Chicago:Open Court, 1994. Leonore Teifer is the most prominent commentator on such research. She has written a lot but the only reference I have for her is Leonore Teifer. Arriving at a "New View" of Women's Sexual Problems: Background, Theory, and Activism. Women and Therapy , 2001. I don't think it is possible to critique M&J without considering our own (varied) current cultural biases. There is room for a great deal more research on M&J - hopefully there are historical articles of which I am unaware which other list members may suggest to us all. Best wishes, Hera
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