Straight sex Book

	Acknowledgements
	Preface
1	My generation: sex as subversive	1
	Saying yes to sex	5
	Out of apathy, into the counter-culture	12
	Saying no to sexism	21
2	The liberated orgasm? feminists fall out	31
	The clitoral truth	34
	Autonomy and control	41
	Sex and love	44
	Women loving women	49
	Sleeping with the enemy	55
	Wars without end	61
3	The coital imperative: sexology and sex research	70
	Defining nature: sex as energy	72
	Early battles between the sexes	79
	From difference to sameness	85
	Sex therapy regimes	92
	Feminist sex research	101
4	Laws of desire: psychoanalytic perspectives and disputes	117
	Sexual drives, psychic realities	118
	Family romances and sexual difference	122
	Phallic prescriptions, penile practices	129
	Women's desire and the bonds of love	140
	Promises and evasions in psychoanalysis	151
5	Gay and lesbian challenges: transgression and recuperation	165
	Coming out, fighting back	166
	Any woman can: reconstructing the lesbian	170
	Following Foucault: resisting homosexual identity	178
	Who's a pervert?: queer theory and gender sabotage	188
	Flaunting it: lesbian chic and the gay nineties	199
6	Rethinking heterosexuality: women with men	213
	Heterosexual defensiveness: a crisis of confidence	215
	Body matters: cultural inscriptions	218
	Sexual histories: bodily constraints	226
	Desiring subjects: identification and fantasy	233
	What's sex got to do with it?: subverting the codes of gender	245
	Phallic fictions, female pleasures	253
7	Sex in society: social problems, sexual panics	267
	Gender uncertainties and sexual crisis	269
	Backlash USA: managing economic dislocation	274
	Beyond the phallus: male passivity	282
	Cultural contradictions: female bodies and the power of women	296
	Sexual liberation and feminist politics	308
	Notes	319
	Index	363