ABSTRACT
The conference, from October 22 to 24, is entitled "New Perspectives in the Management of Female Sexual Dysfunction." A business meeting will be held to discuss and vote on creating a new organization to address this supposed dysfunction, and the whole ball of wax has been underwritten by "unrestricted educational grants" from several pharmaceutical companies. It seems clear that the purpose of this conference on "New Perspectives in the Management of Female Sexual Dysfunction" is to promote the medicalization of women's sexuality—a process of establishing universal norms, and then declaring all variations disordered and in need of treatment. The "female sexual dysfunction" is being invented at this very moment and that it represents a serious challenge for feminists. Absent were women's medicine, gay and lesbian medicine, adolescent medicine, women's studies, lesbian studies, bisexual and transgender studies, social science, sociology, medical sociology, anthropology, medical anthropology, and history, history of medicine, cultural studies, film studies and ethnic studies.
