Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-362) and index.
1. My generation: sex as subversive. Saying yes to sex. Out of apathy, into the counter-culture. Saying no to sexism -- 2. The liberated orgasm? feminists fall out. The clitoral truth. Autonomy and control. Sex and love. Women loving women. Sleeping with the enemy. Wars without end -- 3. The coital imperative: sexology and sex research. Defining nature: sex as energy. Early battles between the sexes. From difference to sameness. Sex therapy regimes. Feminist sex research -- 4. Laws of desire: psychoanalytic perspectives and disputes. Sexual drives, psychic realities. Family romances and sexual difference. Phallic prescriptions, penile practices. Women's desire and the bonds of love. Promises and evasions in psychoanalysis -- 5. Gay and lesbian challenges: transgression and recuperation. Coming out, fighting back. Any woman can: reconstructing the lesbian. Following Foucault: resisting homosexual identity. Who's a pervert?: queer theory and gender sabotage.