Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-281) and index.
Contents
The genealogy of a sex concept : from homosexual history to heterosexual history -- The debut of the heterosexual : Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the mind doctors -- Before heterosexuality : looking backward -- Making the heterosexual mystique : Sigmund Freud's seminal conceptions -- The heterosexual comes out : from doctor discourse to the mass media -- Questioning the heterosexual mystique : some liberal feminist and radical feminist verdicts -- The lesbian menace strikes back : some lavender feminist critiques -- Toward a new pleasure system : looking forward.