Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities
Sexuality is hotly contested in the 1990s. Battles are being fought over lesbian and gay rights, same-sex benefits, sex education for young people, sexual violence against women, and the needs of people living with AIDS. Sexual relations have become a major terrain of social and political struggle. In this revised edition, Kinsman traces the historical and social roots of these contemporary conflicts. The Regulation of Desire offers insights into the social forces that have organized and...
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A substantial contribution to our understanding of the politics of same-gender sexual relations.
AcknowledgementsIntroductions11The Creation of Homosexuality as a "Social Problem"232The Historical Emergence of Homosexualities and Heterosexualities: Social Relations, Sexual Rule and Sexual Resistance483Sexualities in Canadian History - Problems of Sources and Interpretation834Sexual Colonization of the Indigenous Peoples925Buggery and Sodomy in New France, Upper Canada, and the West986"These Things May Lead to the Tragedy of Our Species": The Emergence of Homosexuality, Lesbianism, and Heterosexuality in Canada1077World War II, Coming Out and Constructing Homosexuality as a National, Social, and Sexual Danger1488The Struggle for Law Reform2139Gay/Lesbian Liberation and Communities28810Danger Signals: Moral Conservativism, the Straight Media, the Sex Police, and AIDS33011From Resistance to Liberation375Index410
