Author

Thea Cacchioni

Institution: University of Victoria

Observed institutions: University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, University of Warwick

ORCID: 0000-0001-9580-4447

Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-9580-4447

OpenAlex ID: A5074664692

Heterosexuality and 'the Labour of Love': A Contribution to Recent Debates on Female Sexual Dysfunction

2007 · Thea Cacchioni · Sexualities · 95

Why Medicalization? Introduction to the Special Issue on the Medicalization of Sex

2012 · Thea Cacchioni, Leonore Tiefer · The Journal of Sex Research · 47

The Medicalization of Women's Sexual Pain

2012 · Janine Farrell, Thea Cacchioni · The Journal of Sex Research · 43

Big Pharma, Women, and the Labour of Love

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 35

Sexual improvement as if your health depends on it: An analysis of contemporary sex manuals

2013 · Kristina Gupta, Thea Cacchioni · Feminism & Psychology · 32

Treating women’s sexual difficulties: the body work of sexual therapy

2011 · Thea Cacchioni, Carol Wolkowitz · Sociology of Health & Illness · 27

The Medicalization of Sexual Deviance, Reproduction, and Functioning

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · Handbooks of sociology and social research · 10

6. A Woman’s Work Is Never Done

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks · 8

The aesthetic labour of polycystic ovarian syndrome: The strife of heteronormative standards and the possibilities of queering

2025 · Thea Cacchioni · Sexualities · 3

Book Reviews: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

2021 · Thea Cacchioni · Sexualities · 1

The search for the “pink Viagra”

2011 · Thea Cacchioni · Canadian Medical Association Journal · 1

The Patient Work of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

2026 · Thea Cacchioni · Women s Reproductive Health

2025 · Thea Cacchioni · The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

2025 · Thea Cacchioni · The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society

2. Treating Women’s Sexual Pain: Biomedicalized, Demedicalized, and Do-It-Yourself Approaches

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

3. The Limits of Normative Heterosex

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Introduction: The Labour of Love in the Sexual Pharmaceutical Era

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Preface: Testifying at the US Food and Drug Administration

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Appendix: Participants’ Profiles

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

5. Refusing Heteronormative Sex Work

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Epilogue: The Sexual Pharmaceutical Industry and Its Discontents

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

4. Sex Work: A Labour of Love

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

1. The Rise and Decline of Big Pharma’s “Sexual Revolution”

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

2015 · Thea Cacchioni · University of Toronto Press eBooks

Works count: 33

Citation count: 302

H-index: 8

I10-index: 7