erotica, xv, xxii, xxiv–xxv, xxvii, 2–6, 8, 11, 22, 25–26, 30, 62–66, 70, 72–75, 108, 129, 131–132, 137–138, 151, 154, 184–185

essentialism, xxiv, 6–7, 11–12, 89, 95

exploitation, xii, xxi, 39–41, 43–46, 50, 52–54

Faber, Michel, xx, 39

Fanon, Frantz, 131

femininity, xviii–xx, 9, 12, 21–22, 24–25, 27–28, 31–34, 65–66, 73–74, 84, 88–89, 92, 98, 111, 118, 120

feminism, xiii–xviii, xx–xxiii, xxv–xxvi, xxix, 1–3, 5, 7, 9–14, 22–28, 30, 32–34, 39–40, 50–52, 54, 62, 64, 66–67, 69, 72–75, 85, 97, 106, 120, 127, 133, 173

Flâneur, 169–171, 179, 184

Flâneuse, 171, 178–179, 183–184

Foucault, Michel, xii, xxi, 84, 98

Freud, Sigmund, 12, 23, 28, 30, 70, 172

Friday, Nancy, xvi

gay, xvi, xxi–xxiii, xxvi–xxviii, 62–63, 65–67, 71, 81–83, 93–95, 97–98, 106, 113, 147–160, 164–165

Gamble, Sarah, xvii, 2

gender economics, 41

Giddens, Anthony, xvi

Gill, Rosalind, xvii

Gopinath, Gayatri, xxvii

Grewal, Inderpal, xxvii, 127, 183

Halperin, David, xxi

heteronormative, xxi, 70, 73–74, 84–85, 89–90, 93, 96, 98, 128, 140

heterosexuality, xi, xviii–xxiii, xxvi–xxvii, xxix, 6, 10, 14, 32, 62, 66, 71, 82–83, 86, 88, 92, 95, 110, 114, 117–119, 121, 151, 155, 169–170, 175

identity, xii, xix, xxi–xxv, xxvii, xxix, 2, 6, 26, 62, 64–65, 73–75, 81–83, 85–86, 90–91, 93–94, 96, 98–99, 105–108, 110, 112–114, 127, 140, 148, 150, 159, 163, 170, 174–175, 185

Ihimaera, Witi, 150

In the Cut, xx, 21, 24–25, 28, 30–31, 33–34

incest, xii, 110

Irigaray, Luce, 172

Jackson, Stevi, xii, xvi, xxvi

Jensen, Robert, xv, 10

Johnson, Merri Lisa, xvi, 25

Johnson, Paul, xvi, xxvi, 25

Joseph, M.K., 121, 129–130, 138–139

Kaplan, Caren, xxvii

Kristeva, Julia, 172

Kundera, Milan, 34

Lamming, George, 129, 133

lesbian, xxi, xxiv, 61–66, 70–75, 83, 85, 106

lesbian-feminism, xxi, 62, 64, 66, 72–75, 85, 106

lesbian phallus, 70–71

Leek, Robert (alias Glynn Parker), 150

Levy, Andrea, xxviii, 127–128

liberation, xiii, xix–xx, 6, 11–13, 63, 74, 84, 87, 89, 92, 94, 96, 98, 112, 135