1. See Mitchell, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and "On Freud and the Sexes." For a similar version of this section set in a somewhat different context, see M. Johnson, "Reproducing Male Dominance." [BACK]

2. Mitchell, "On Freud and the Sexes," p. 36. [BACK]

3. G. Rubin ("Traffic in Women") provides a more anthropologically sophisticated discussion of "the exchange of women." [BACK]

4. Mitchell, "On Freud and the Sexes," p. 36. [BACK]

5. Stoller, "Freud's Concept of Bisexuality." [BACK]

6. Sheleff, Generations Apart . [BACK]

7. Zilboorg, "Masculine and Feminine," especially p. 288. [BACK]

8. Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, p. 19. This statement is made in a context that makes one expect him to say "a mother's protection," but he does not. Real life for Freud begins with father. [BACK]

9. Parsons, "Family Structure and the Socialization of the Child" in Parsons and Bales, Family Socialization, pp. 35-131. See also Parsons, "Social Structure and the Development of Personality" in his Social Structure and Personality, pp. 78-111. [BACK]

10. Fischer and Watson, "Explaining the Oedipus Conflict." [BACK]

11. Rush, "Freudian Cover-Up." Masson, Assault on Truth . [BACK]

12. On this see Masson, "Persecution and Expulsion of Jeffrey Masson." [BACK]

13. Bonaparte, Freud, and Kris, eds., Letters of Wilhelm Fliess . [BACK]

14. Russell, Sexual Exploitation, pp. 177-214, especially p. 186. Finkelhor, Sexually Victimized Children, p. 88. [BACK]

15. Russell, Sexual Exploitation, p. 189. [BACK]

16. Finkelhor, Sexually Victimized Children, p. 101. For research on problems with intimacy, see Meiselman, Incest ; Herman, Father-Daughter Incest . For alienation of incest victims from mothers, see Herman, Father-Daughter Incest . [BACK]

17. Armstrong, Kiss Daddy Goodnight . [BACK]

18. Foucault, History of Sexuality . [BACK]

19. Mitchell, Women, The Longest Revolution, pp. 295-313, especially p. 308. [BACK]

20. Herman, Father-Daughter Incest, p. 125. [BACK]

22. Adams-Tucker and Adams, "Role of Father," p. 230. [BACK]

23. Gordon and O'Keefe, "Incest as Family Violence," especially pp. 32-33. [BACK]

24. Gelinas, "Negative Effects of Incest." [BACK]

25. Finkelhor, Sexually Victimized Children, pp. 50-51. [BACK]

26. For many of these thoughts on the romance novel, I am indebted continue

to an unpublished paper by Marcia Stille, a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Oregon. [BACK]

27. A. Heilbrun, Human Sex Role Behavior, pp. 161-62. [BACK]

28. Radway, Reading the Romance, p. 125. Radway interviewed a sample of women readers of romance novels about what they got out of them. [BACK]

29. Rush, "Sexual Abuse of Children," p. 71. [BACK]

30. Benjamin, "End of Internalization," especially note on p. 60. [BACK]

31. Bieber, "Clinical Aspects of Male Homosexuality." [BACK]

32. Freud, "Psychogenesis of Homosexuality in a Woman," pp. 145-46nn. [BACK]

33. For summaries of these studies see M. Johnson, "Heterosexuality, Male Dominance, and Father Image." [BACK]

34. Tripp, Homosexual Matrix . [BACK]

35. Harry, Gay Children Crown Up . [BACK]

36. Freud, "Psychogenesis of Homosexuality in a Woman," p. 135. [BACK]

37. Gayle Rubin quotes these statements in a footnote in "Traffic in Women," p. 202. [BACK]

38. For a good discussion of the controlling function of the deviance label with respect to lesbians, see Zita, "Historical Amnesia and Lesbian Continuum." Zita's comment is one among several excellent commentaries on Adrienne Rich's ideas concerning a lesbian continuum contained in Signs 7 (1981). See Ferguson, Zita, and Addelson, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence." [BACK]

39. Snitow, Stansell, and Thompson, eds., Powers of Desire, p. 34. [BACK]