Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-269) and index.
Ch. 1. Theorizing Lesbian and Gay Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Community -- Ch. 2. Historicizing Sexuality: Forms of Desire and the Construction of Identities -- Ch. 3. Eros Unbound: A Queer Reading of Plato's Symposium -- Ch. 4. Psychoanalyzing the "Third Sex": Homosexuality, Sexual Difference and Fantasy -- Ch. 5. Refiguring the Jewish Question: Hannah Arendt, Political Equality, and Social Difference -- Ch. 6. Queer Citizenship: Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" and the Ethics of Self-Making -- Ch. 7. Intimacy and Equality: The Question of Lesbian and Gay Marriage