diff --git a/django/db/models/fields/generic.py b/django/contrib/contenttypes/generic.py
similarity index 100%
rename from django/db/models/fields/generic.py
rename to django/contrib/contenttypes/generic.py
diff --git a/django/core/management.py b/django/core/management.py
index b086663002..8785798abc 100644
--- a/django/core/management.py
+++ b/django/core/management.py
@@ -241,14 +241,14 @@ def _get_sql_for_pending_references(model, pending_references):
 
 def _get_many_to_many_sql_for_model(model):
     from django.db import backend, get_creation_module
-    from django.db.models import GenericRel
+    from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
 
     data_types = get_creation_module().DATA_TYPES
 
     opts = model._meta
     final_output = []
     for f in opts.many_to_many:
-        if not isinstance(f.rel, GenericRel):
+        if not isinstance(f.rel, generic.GenericRel):
             table_output = [style.SQL_KEYWORD('CREATE TABLE') + ' ' + \
                 style.SQL_TABLE(backend.quote_name(f.m2m_db_table())) + ' (']
             table_output.append('    %s %s %s,' % \
diff --git a/django/db/models/__init__.py b/django/db/models/__init__.py
index ccd60023f9..6c3abb6b59 100644
--- a/django/db/models/__init__.py
+++ b/django/db/models/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from django.db.models.manager import Manager
 from django.db.models.base import Model, AdminOptions
 from django.db.models.fields import *
 from django.db.models.fields.related import ForeignKey, OneToOneField, ManyToManyField, ManyToOneRel, ManyToManyRel, OneToOneRel, TABULAR, STACKED
-from django.db.models.fields.generic import GenericRelation, GenericRel, GenericForeignKey
 from django.db.models import signals
 from django.utils.functional import curry
 from django.utils.text import capfirst
diff --git a/django/db/models/query.py b/django/db/models/query.py
index 87af774a36..08a7901d6f 100644
--- a/django/db/models/query.py
+++ b/django/db/models/query.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 from django.db import backend, connection, transaction
 from django.db.models.fields import DateField, FieldDoesNotExist
-from django.db.models.fields.generic import GenericRelation
-from django.db.models import signals
+from django.db.models import signals, loading
 from django.dispatch import dispatcher
 from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
+from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
 import operator
 import re
 
@@ -1041,7 +1041,7 @@ def delete_objects(seen_objs):
 
         pk_list = [pk for pk,instance in seen_objs[cls]]
         for related in cls._meta.get_all_related_many_to_many_objects():
-            if not isinstance(related.field, GenericRelation):
+            if not isinstance(related.field, generic.GenericRelation):
                 for offset in range(0, len(pk_list), GET_ITERATOR_CHUNK_SIZE):
                     cursor.execute("DELETE FROM %s WHERE %s IN (%s)" % \
                         (qn(related.field.m2m_db_table()),
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ def delete_objects(seen_objs):
                             ','.join(['%s' for pk in pk_list[offset:offset+GET_ITERATOR_CHUNK_SIZE]])),
                         pk_list[offset:offset+GET_ITERATOR_CHUNK_SIZE])
         for f in cls._meta.many_to_many:
-            if isinstance(f, GenericRelation):
+            if isinstance(f, generic.GenericRelation):
                 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
                 query_extra = 'AND %s=%%s' % f.rel.to._meta.get_field(f.content_type_field_name).column
                 args_extra = [ContentType.objects.get_for_model(cls).id]
diff --git a/tests/modeltests/generic_relations/models.py b/tests/modeltests/generic_relations/models.py
index 2b2f64165f..195f67db8f 100644
--- a/tests/modeltests/generic_relations/models.py
+++ b/tests/modeltests/generic_relations/models.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from complete).
 
 from django.db import models
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
+from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
 
 class TaggedItem(models.Model):
     """A tag on an item."""
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ class TaggedItem(models.Model):
     content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
     object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
     
-    content_object = models.GenericForeignKey()
+    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey()
     
     class Meta:
         ordering = ["tag"]
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ class Animal(models.Model):
     common_name = models.CharField(maxlength=150)
     latin_name = models.CharField(maxlength=150)
     
-    tags = models.GenericRelation(TaggedItem)
+    tags = generic.GenericRelation(TaggedItem)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return self.common_name
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ class Vegetable(models.Model):
     name = models.CharField(maxlength=150)
     is_yucky = models.BooleanField(default=True)
     
-    tags = models.GenericRelation(TaggedItem)
+    tags = generic.GenericRelation(TaggedItem)
     
     def __str__(self):
         return self.name
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/serializers_regress/models.py b/tests/regressiontests/serializers_regress/models.py
index d3415ac1b9..c287b6e0d6 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/serializers_regress/models.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/serializers_regress/models.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This class sets up a model for each model field type
 """
 
 from django.db import models
+from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
 from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType
 
 # The following classes are for testing basic data 
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ class Tag(models.Model):
     content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType)
     object_id = models.PositiveIntegerField()
 
-    content_object = models.GenericForeignKey()
+    content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey()
 
     class Meta:
         ordering = ["data"]
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ class Tag(models.Model):
 class GenericData(models.Model):
     data = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
 
-    tags = models.GenericRelation(Tag)
+    tags = generic.GenericRelation(Tag)
     
 # The following test classes are all for validation
 # of related objects; in particular, forward, backward,