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In a series of articles, and shorter, more personal pieces, leading feminists, psychologists and activists explore the personal and the political implications of their own heterosexuality and of heterosexuality as an institution. They consider the extent to which feminism and heterosexuality are compatible, and the complex interrelationships between sexual behaviour, categories and identities. Acknowledging interactions between heterosexism and other oppressions, they point to the contradictions between heterosexual desire and heterosexual coercion, between heterosexual privilege and women's traditional role within the family.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)