Big Pharma, Women and the Labour of Love

摘要

Sexuality has become medicalized and pharmaceuticalized, and one of the more vocal sources of critique against this comes from work at the intersection of feminist science studies and medical sociology. Much of this work has a distinctive activist stream. Big Pharma, Women and the Labour of Love by Thea Cacchioni is both another brick in the wall of resistance to pharma's definition of normal, 'healthy' sex and an interesting study in the way heterosexual norms, the coital imperative and penetrative sex prevail through the health care system to the individual. Cacchioni's study gives the reader clear, strong and empirically grounded examples of how this is discursively done by and to individuals as they learn to enact (or occasionally resist) the labour of love.