This book explores the truly fascinating 20th century story of origin and development of the so-called unbiased medical/scientific investigation of homosexuality and how it often functioned to condemn homosexuality, working people, and people of color while advocating heterosexuality (defined as not homosexual). The author records how this binary view of sexuality rose to national preeminence as aided by experts, monopolist foundations and national politicians, like McCarthy, as well as a very human recounting of the struggles of those subjected to it. In the end, the author asks whether the medical/scientific investigation should continue? However, even Freud considered heterosexuality a learned behavior. Isn't the question, who is teaching and why? While there have been some tantalizing starts into these questions, such as John D'Emilio's Making Trouble, there is still much to be learned about how capitalism has destroyed the family; what monopolist, university, and government regulators have done about it; and, how lesbian and gay organizations have succumbed to the ideas of these regulators in the current campaign for gay marriage, see for example Michael Warner's The Trouble with Normal.

An excellent piece of scholarship, Jennifer Terry's outstanding book on the evolution of scientific thinking about homosexuality is the first to provide a synoptic view of this large and important subject.

With insight and humor, Jennifer Terry chronicles the past two centuries' efforts by science and society to classify and adjudicate our myriad ways to experience love, desire, and pleasure. An important book that raises many new questions and casts new light on the old ones.

from TT reviewer Angie Gibbs
Kerry and Terry McAfee are identical twins, and fledgling investigators. Asked by their zany Aunt Reba to help a friend of hers, the twins embark on a quest to find a runaway husband, but the situation quickly turns into a quest to find a killer. Tooling around the posh streets of Beverly Hills on a pink Harley straight out of the pages of Biker Barbie, the twins get more than what they bargained for when they uncover an intricate maze of blackmail, drugs, and murder.

With the help of their Aunt Reba and Kerry's former boss, defense attorney extraordinaire Eli Weintraub, the twins are determined to find the killer of their former client. Throughout the book, you get introduced to a cast of wacky characters, and two precocious dogs, a Chihuahua named Paquito and a Pug named Muffy. You are going to fall in love with the McAfee twins. Kerry and Terry McAfee are twins with very different personalities that seem to complement each other, as much as they spark off of each other.

Jennifer Colt has written a winner! A laugh a minute thrill ride, The Butcher of Beverly Hills will go down in history as a classic "who done it". From the first page, you'll be crying because you are laughing so hard at the quick dialogue, the kooky characters, and the hilarious situations that the twins always seem to find themselves in. Whether they are dodging police questions, getting beaten up by a mop-wielding janitor, or chased by an actor turned bodyguard, Kerry and Terry will hold your attention and keep you on the edge of your seat. The Butcher of Beverly Hills has been nominated in the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. This book is going to take a permanent place in my keeper collection. If you like a good mystery, you will not be disappointed.

They travel around Beverly Hills on a shocking pink Dyna Wide Glide Harley motorcycle that looks like something stolen from the "Barbie Goes Hog Wild!" collection. Twin red heads, one wearing a matching pink leather jacket with fringe, and a pink helmet with a purple flower-power daisy on the side.

I don't know where to start reviewing THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS. It is that good! I spent the weekend reading it, and can't tell you how many times I was laughing so hard, I thought I was going to have to invest in new undergarments. It is
that funny.

Jennifer Colt is absolutely fantastic. She literally grabs
you with her two-page prologue, and takes you on an unforgettable ride with two of the most delightful redheaded twins, that you will ever meet. I wasn't even finished with
THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS and already looking forward to
the next adventure that these twins were going to take me on. They are that addicting.

Terry and Kerry McAfee, twin twenty-something redheads, were born and raised in Beverly Hills, California. Identical twins
in appearance, but definitely with individual personalities. Due to circumstances beyond their control, they become private investigators in order to pay the bills. They aren't doing so great, paying the bills that is, when a friend of their rich Aunt Reba calls needing their help. So more out of the necessity for money, than for the love of their great-aunt,
they agree to help Lenore Richling out.

Right away they should have known that this job was not one
that was going to be routine, or easy. They had to meet Lenore in a hotel set up to cater to old women healing from plastic surgery.

When they arrive at the hotel they are met by a seventy-year-old woman,bearing bandages, bruises, and surgical tape. Lenore wants the girls to search for her twenty year-old soon to be ex-husband, Mario Vallegos,who has run away with ten thousand dollars of her money. After haggling over their fee, the girls finally agree to find him and Lenore's money.

What Terry and Kerry find while searching for Mario is considerably more than the ten thousand dollars. Murder, mayhem, drugs, abandoned pets,unethical attorneys, and the Russian mob are but a few of the obstacles in the way of solving the case. All surrounded by wealth, old ladies,and the
surreal world of Beverly Hills.

THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS is a refreshing 'private eye' book that will have you laughing so hard, you will be crying. The characters are fresh, and brought forth in such a way that you can actually see them. Each one has a personality that draws you to them. The story is captivating with many twists and turns. You will not be able to figure out "who done it" until Ms Colt allows you to do so, although she does give you plenty of clues along the way.

Terry and Kerry are absolutely wonderful. They go through life with an attitude that is bubbling with enthusiasm and wonderment. The way that they look at the environment that they are thrown into is something that absolutely draws you to them.

Ms. Colt is an author that is here to stay, her humor and wit is beyond description. It flows from the pages in waves, and the reader absorbs it in such a way that they cannot but feel wonderful after having read it. At the same time they have read a mystery that is truly fascinating. One that is written so well that it cannot be put down until that very last page.

I can't wait for Ms. Colt's next installment in the lives, and
adventures, of Terry and Kerry McAfee. I just know that I will again have to stock up on Depends because I will again be laughing so hard at the antics of these wonderful red-headed twins on their pink Dyna Wide Glide Harley solving the problems of the rich, and famous in that ultra-rich world of 'Beverly Hills 213'

This is one book you cannot miss. Get your copy of THE BUTCHER OF BEVERLY HILLS now, because it won't stay on the shelves long.

Twenty-three contributors explore the questions: How exactly do technologies produce bodies (and subjects) that are recognizably raced, gendered and sexualized? How can technology be used to transform cultural conceptions of gender, sexuality, and embodiment? And less explicitly: What do cyberfeminist engagements with technoscientific discourses look like? Volume includes examples (and analysis)of work by female techno-artists creatively interpreting the intersections between desire, the body, science and machines. Notable essays by Margaret Morse and Sara Diamond on virtual gender, and by Lisa Cartwright and Evelynn Hammonds on imaging technologies and the production of racial and gendered norms. Together these artists and theorists consider "the complex territory" between pleasure/desire and fear/suspicion of technoscience and cyberculture from a number of feminist perspectives.