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An examination of Sigmund Freud's relation to homosexuality argues that recent scholarly works calling Freud one of the foremost inventors of contemporary homophobia contain only a grain of truth. It is contended that Freud viewed homosexuality as normalizing vs pathologizing; ie, he considered heterosexuality the normal result of identity formation & did not see homosexuality as a sickness. Further, his view of homosexuality was universalizing, not minoritizing, because he was against isolating homosexuals as a separate class. However, his far harsher treatment of lesbians than gay men is evidence of his misogyny. While he denied any link between homosexual object choice & character inversion (effeminacy) in males, he saw lesbians as always mannish. It is concluded that efforts by analysts to "cure" homosexuality are decidedly anti-Freudian, maintaining that Freud came close to saying homosexuality was not in the range of any therapy. J. Lindroth

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Enlightenment Confronts Homosexuality -- 2. The Marquis de Villette and Mademoiselle de Raucourt: Representations of Male and Female Sexual Deviance in Late Eighteenth-century France -- 3. Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie-Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution -- 4. The Regulation of Male Homosexuality in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1789-1815 -- 5. Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830-1870 -- 6. Love and Death in Gay Paris: Homosexuality and Criminality in the 1870s -- 7. Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts' Inversions -- 8. Invisible Women: Lesbian Working-class Culture in France, 1880-1930 -- 9. Natalism, Homosexuality, and the Controversy over Corydon -- 10. Michel Foucault's Sexuality and the History of Homosexuality in France -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.