cover image Intimate Matters

Intimate Matters

Estelle B. Freedman, John Demilio. Harper Perennial, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-091550-6

The history of sexuality in the U.S. is not a progressive jump from repression to freedom, the authors maintain. Here, they ``cram into 400 pages balanced discussions of racial sex-stereotyping, Chinese slave rings, abortion, same-sex relationships, women's rights and AIDS-engendered conservatism,'' reported PW. Illustrated. (Apr.)