Leslie Margolin is a professor of rhetoric, sexuality, and counselling at the University of Iowa. Margolin's previous books include Goodness Personified: The Emergence of Gifted Children and Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work.

"This is a book everyone should read because it addresses common misconceptions concerning sexual desire. I think anyone who reads the book — if they really think about the content--will be changed in how they view sexuality including their own." -- Eileen Gambrill, Professor of the Graduate School, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley

"In The Etherized Wife, Les Margolin offers brilliant, pro-feminist insights into the role of sex therapy in reinforcing normative sex roles through its entrenched imposition of phallogocentric standards on women's sexuality. Lucidly written, deeply theorized, historically grounded, and analytically adept, this book signals a welcome and radical paradigm shift in counseling therapy, theories of sexuality, and feminist studies - one with the potential for a progressive transformation, not just of therapeutic practice, but of society." -- Meenakshi Gigi Durham, University of Iowa

"Margolin argues for a more expansive view of sexual functioning and, most importantly, for exploring underlying assumptions and values." Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. -- Choice