Index
| adoption and foster parenting bars 98 , 139 , 158 New Hampshire law 98 , 104 |
| Allen, Hillary 53 |
| American Psychiatric Association 96 |
| ampersand problem 57 , 58 |
| anti-discrimination policies: cultural impact of 109-10 and immoral conduct 100 , 153 and lesbian and gay politics 1 , 14 status based 88 , 89 |
| anti-essentialism 50 , 55-6 , 71 |
| Baehr v. Lewin107 , 116 |
| Barr, Representative 113 |
| BenShalom v. Secretary of the Army91 |
| Bensinger, Terralee 37 , 38 |
| Bieber, Irving 146 |
| binary categories 'woman' and 'man' 17 , 29 , 39 central to institutionalized heterosexuality 45 denaturalization of 37 , 38 , 71-2 and gender performance 37 , 38 , 71 lesbian and gay escape from 17 , 51 , 67-8 ; see also third sex ; lesbian as not-woman |
| Blackmun, Justice Harry A. 86 |
| Blackstone Esq., William 83 |
| Blumstein, Philip 115 |
| Bonheur, Rosa 65 , 66 |
| Bowers v. Hardwick82-6 , 104 , 107 |
| Brennan, Justice William J. 92 , 93 , 94 |
| Briggs Initiative (California) 99 |
| Bunch, Charlotte 26 , 40 , 44 , 61 , 134 |
| Burger, Justice Warren E. 83 , 85 |
| butches and femmes: feminist critique of 35-6 , 38 performance of masculinity and femininity 36-8 political significance of 36-7 , 43 |
| Butler, Judith 36 , 37 , 38 , 51 , 71-2 |
| Byrd, Senator Robert C. 110 , 126 |
| Case, Sue-Ellen 50 |
| Caserio, Robert L. 84 |
| Chauncey Jr., George 144 |
| child custody by lesbian and gay parents 98 , 139 |
| children: importance of teaching the value of heterosexual marriage 127-8 , 152 and lesbian feminist critique of motherhood 135-6see also gay prevention ; parental rights |
| citizenship: connected to heterosexuality 105 and lesbians' and gays' citizen-deviant status 104-5 and lesbians and gays as inessential citizens 124see also marriage and citizenship |
| Clark, Danae 70 |
| Clause 28 (Britain) 98-9 |
| closet, the 16-17 , 34 , 44 , 47 , 77 , 79-82 , 84 , 106 |
| Coats, Senator 128 |
| compulsory heterosexuality 4 , 8 , 26-7 , 37 , 60 |
| cross-dressing 66 , 67 , 70 , 73 |
| Daly, Mary 12 |
| Defense of Marriage Act 7 , 107 , 122-8 , 141 |
| difference-identified woman 55 |
| displacement 16 , 47 from public sphere, see pseudonymous heterosexual identity from social future, see gay prevention |
| Dover, Kenneth 23 |
| Duggan, Lisa 144 |
| Edwards, Judge 92 , 93 , 94 |
| Ellis, Havelock 68-9 , 70 , 95 , 143 |
| Eskridge Jr., William 111 |
| Faderman, Lillian 144 |
| Faircloth, Senator Launch 123 |
| familial status 156 |
| family: alternative lesbian and gay 114 , 156 authority to define 105 , 156 biological versus chosen kin 156-9 feminist critiques of 41 , 132-3 lesbian and gay relation to 139-49 lesbian feminist rejection of 134-5 , 137-9 pretended 99 , 122 , 150-1 , 152-3 |
| feminist methodology 3-4 , 9-14 |
| feminist theory: black versus lesbian response to bias in 3-4 desexualizes lesbian desire 53-4 difference sensitive 50 , 52 ignores lesbian difference 1 , 3 , 13-14 , 50-1 , 53-6 , 62 , 72 |
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Book title: Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement.
Contributors: Cheshire Calhoun - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: 169.
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