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Contents
Introduction to Second Edition | 1 |
An Encounter | 29 |
Perspectives | 49 |
SubjectivityTransgression and Deviant Desire | 67 |
Transgression and its Containment | 111 |
Perversions Lost Histories | 133 |
Sexual Perversion Pathology to Politics | 201 |
Beleaguered Norms and Perverse Dynamics | 269 |
Transgressive Reinscriptions Early Modern and Postmodern | 317 |
Beyond Sexual Difference | 369 |
Afterword | 400 |
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