ABSTRACT

Feminist psychologist Mary Crawford (1992, p. 429) describes her monogamous marriage, but identifies herself not as heterosexual but as ‘a woman-identified person who, because of a decision to enter into a long-term affectional and sexual relationship with a man, is situated in a largely heterosexual social context’. More forcefully still, Sandra Bem (1992, p. 436) states: ‘Although I have lived monogamously with a man I love for over twenty-six years, I am not now and never have been a “heterosexual”.’