Muriel Dimen


Selected Works

Experimental Non-Fiction
Surviving Sexual Contradictions: A Startling and Different Look at a Day in the Life of a Professional Woman
Weaves together a fictional first-person narrative with a commentary on sex and politics.
Non-Fiction
Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
A scintillating attempt to revivify Freud’s interest in “sexual impulses in the ordinary sense of the term.”
The Anthropological Imagination
A popular “anti-text” that introduces cultural anthropology.

My Works

Sexuality, Intimacy, Power
Taking an irreverent look at conventional assumptions, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power shows how radically re-visioning psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best, it is equally a historical document that will intrigue and enlighten students of women’s, gender, and queer studies.

Surviving Sexual Contradictions: A Startling and Different Look at a Day in the Life of a Professional Woman
"A woman's odyssey from which you come out a little feistier than before."
--Christine Stansell, Ms.


The Anthropological Imagination
“...explores the new vistas and understandings opened up by anthropology...with a new vibrance and a new voice...and does this nearly impossible thing: presents the instruments of anthropological understanding in ways that flow from experience itself to allow readers to comprehend their own reality by themselves and for themselves.”
--Eric R. Wolf



"If you read only one book on sex and gender this year, this is the one." Ethel Spector Person, M.D.




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