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Increasing our Understanding of Women’s Sexuality

Deserving Desire: Women’s Stories of Sexual Evolution. By Beth Montemurro, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2014. 230 pp. $27.95 (paperback) ISBN: 978-0-8135-6439-5

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DeLamater, J. Increasing our Understanding of Women’s Sexuality. Sex Roles 72, 265–267 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-015-0468-y

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