Rebecca Chalker is an adjunct professor of women's and gender studies at Pace University in New York City and a visiting lecturer at Florida State University, where she teaches a course that she developed on the cultural history of sexuality. Her latest book, The Clitoral Truth, was featured on Sex and the City in 2004. Her articles have appeared in Ms. magazine, The Village Voice, and On Our Backs, as well as in peer-reviewed academic journals. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and is a certified sexuality counselor.
Women’s health advocates vigorously question unrealistic projections for sexuality and aging – bleak sexual desert or pharmaceutical Niagara – and have identified helpful strategies for maintaining and enhancing sexuality after menopause.
