Dialogues with colleagues inspired rethinking of the fetishistic strategy that informs Female Perversions. Susan Streitfeld's film interpretation of the text was a crucial inspiration. As the theory of fetishism shifts from metaphors of Eros to metaphors of Death, it resolves into a shifting dynamic relationship between the two. The other major aspect of the author's rethinking concerns the heterosexual bias that infiltrates her text and a corresponding tendency for the text to regress to the dichotomous views of gender and sex that the book set out to amend. One outcome of the rethinking is a recasting of gender/sex, biological essence/social constructionism debates in the more dynamic language commensurate with the complexities of psychoanalytic thinking.