Love and Sex: A Primer

Introduction
 S. K. Keltner, The Peculiarities of Love and Sex

Chapter 1. Powers of Eros
Introduction
Plato, Symposium – The Speeches of Aristophanes and Socrates
Lorde, The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, Archimedes’ Principle: How We Sense the Inner Worlds of Other Hearts

Chapter 2. The Nature of Sex—Gender, Race, Science
Introduction
Charles Darwin, Sexual Selection
Sigmund Freud, The Infantile Sexuality
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nature

Chapter 3. Family, Kinship, Identity
Introduction
Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
Hortense J. Spillers, Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
Judith, Imitation and Gender Insubordination

Chapter 4. Economies of Desire
Introduction
Isabel Molina Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia, Brain, Brow, and Booty: Latina Iconicity in U.S. Popular Culture
bell, Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
David M., Is There a History of Sexuality?

Chapter 5. In Search of Eros
Introduction
Anne Koedt, The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Toward a Genealogy of Black Female Sexuality: The Problematic of Silence
Abby Wilkerson, Disability, Sex Radicalism, and Political Agency

Chapter 6. Health, Rights, Justice
Introduction
Harriet A. Washington, The American Janus of Medicine and Race
Kimala Price, What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
David France, The Memorial Service

Chapter 7. Pleasures and Dangers
Introduction
C. J. Pascoe, Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High
Danielle Keats Citron, Digital Hate
Melinda Chateauvert, “The Revolution Is Finally Here!” Sex Work and Strategic Sex