Includes bibliographical references and index.

The cultural constitution of gender / Henrietta Moore -- Towards a theory of patriarchy / Sylvia Walby -- Gender regimes and the gender order / R.W. Connell -- Gender, relation and difference in psychoanalytic perspective / Nancy Chodorow -- The feminist critique of rationality / Susan Hekman -- Radical philosophies of sexual differences : Luce Irigaray / Rosi Braidotti -- James Joyce between Eros and Agape / Julia Kristeva -- Feminism and the question of postmodernism / Seyla Benhabib -- The dangers of a woman-centred philosophy / Moira Gatens -- The disorder of women / Carole Pateman -- Gender and sexual temperament / Natalie Zemon Davis -- Hidden from history / June Purvis -- Homemaking / Philip Pacey -- Gendered jobs and social inequality / Harriet Bradley -- The variety of work done by wives / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard -- The domestic mystique / Christina Hardyment -- Persons, households, families, lineages, genders, classes and nations / Michael Mann -- The representation of women / Anne Phillips -- Technology as masculine culture / Judy Wajcman -- Reproductive technologies and the deconstruction of motherhood / Michelle Stanworth -- The body and sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks -- Men, women and romantic love / Anthony Giddens -- Deconstructing the monolithic Phallus / Lesley Hall -- Art and pornography / Susanne Kappeler -- Masculinity, violence and sexual murder / Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer -- Rape and sexuality / Barbara Sichtermann -- Competing masculinities / Catherine Hall -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol Adams -- Women in prison : surviving Holloway / Josie O'Dwyer and Pat Carlen -- The military academy and the male body / Klaus Theweleit.