Powers of desire : the politics of sexuality / edited by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson.

Includes bibliographical references.

Section I. The capitalist paradox: expanding and contracting pleasures -- Section II. Sexual revolution -- Section III. The institution of heterosexuality -- Section IV. Domination, submission, and the unconscious -- Section V. On sexual openness -- Section VI. Current controversies.

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 Bérubé -- Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.