Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson
  • Section I. The capitalist paradox : expanding and contracting pleasures
  • Sex and society : a research note from social history and anthropology / Ellen Ross and Rayna Rapp
  • "Charity Girls" and city pleasures : historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss
  • Marching to a different drummer : lesbian and gay GIs in World War II / Allan Berube
  • Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio
  • Section II. Sexual revolution
  • Family, sexual morality, and popular movements in turn-of-the-century America / Barbara Epstein
  • Feminism, men, and modern love : Greenwich Village, 1900-1925 / Ellen Kay Trimberger
  • The new woman and the rationalization of sexuality in Weimar Germany / Atina Grossmann
  • Section III. The institution of heterosexuality
  • Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence / Adrienne Rich
  • Russian working women : sexuality in bonding patterns and the politics of daily life / Anne Bobroff
  • They're always curious / Irena Klepfisz
  • The Afro-American female : the historical context of the construction of sexual identity / Rennie Simson
  • I just came out pregnant / Felicita Garcia
  • Mass market romance : pornography for women is different / Ann Barr Snitow
  • Issues and answers / Myra Goldberg
  • Garden paths, descents / Sharon Thompson
  • Section IV. Domination, submission, and the unconscious
  • Master and slave : the fantasy of erotic domination / Jessica Benjamin
  • Outside the operating room of the sex-change doctor / Sharon Olds
  • Movie / Nancy Harrison
  • Street dream #1 / Sharon Thompson
  • Is the gaze male? / E. Ann Kaplan
  • "The mind that burns in each body" : women, rape, and racial violence / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
  • Hearts of darkness / Barbara Omolade
  • Section V. On sexual openness
  • Gender systems, ideology, and sex research / Carole S. Vance
  • The teacher / Carole Rosenthal
  • What we're rollin around in bed with : sexual silences in feminism / Amber Hollibaugh and Cherríe Moraga
  • In the morning / Jayne Cortez
  • Bestiary / Sharon Olds
  • A story of a girl and her dog / Alix Kates Shulman
  • Section VI. Current controversies
  • Male vice and female virtue : feminism and the politics of prostitution in nineteenth-century Britain / Judith R. Walkowitz
  • The new feminism of Yin and Yang / Alice Echols
  • Feminism, moralism, and pornography / Ellen Willis
  • My mother liked to fuck / Joan Nestle
  • Abortion : is a woman a person? / Elen Willis
  • The fear that feminism will free men first / Deirdre English.