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Book Review

Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982. By Jane Gerhard. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-231-11204-1. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-231-11205-X.)
Within American sexual thought—from an interwar vogue for Sigmund Freud onwards—Jane Gerhard analyzes a "second wave" feminism grounded in psychoanalytic and sexological mappings. She interrogates elusive erotic sex differences and the experts' stress on libidinal sameness. Historians of gender and sexuality will appreciate her fresh perspectives both on Alfred C. Kinsey and on William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson. Moreover, her lively account of "coming to feminism" novels will inspire new readers for classics of the period. . . .
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