First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

PART 1 CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER 1. Nancy Julia Chodorow -- Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytical Perspective 2. Iris Marion Young -- Is Male Gender Identity the Cause of Male Domination? 3. Ann Ferguson -- On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality A Feminist Materialist Approach 4. Catharine MacKinnon -- Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State An Agenda for Theory 5. Sandra Lee Bartky -- Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power 6. Judith Butler -- Excerpt from Gender Trouble PART 2 THEORIZING DIVERSITY -- GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION 7. Nancy Fraser and Linda J. Nicholson -- Social Criticism Without Philosophy An Encounter Between Feminism and Postmodernism 8. Maria Lugones -- Playfulness, World - Traveling, and Loving Perception 9. Elizabeth V. Spelman -- Woman The One and the Many 10. Elizabeth Abel -- Race, Class, and Psychoanalysis? Opening Questions 11. Cheshire Calhoun -- Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory 12. Deborah K. King -- Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness The Context of Black Feminist Ideology PART 3 FIGURATIONS OF WOMEN/WOMAN AS FIGURATION 13. Kimberl Williams Crenshaw -- Beyond Racism and Misogyny Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew 14. Eva Feder Kittay -- Woman as Metaphor 15. Genevieve Lloyd -- Maleness, Metaphor, and the Crisis of Reason 16. Julia Kristeva -- Stabat Mater 17. Luce Irigaray -- And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other PART 4 SUBJECTIVITY, AGENCY, AND FEMINIST CRITIQUE 18. Patricia J. Williams -- Mirrors and Windows An Essay on Empty Signs, Pregnant Meanings, and Women's Power 19. Naomi Scheman -- Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in It 20. Susan E. Babbitt -- Feminism and Objective Interests The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation 21. Alison M. Jaggar -- Love and Knowledge Emotion in Feminist Epistemology 22. Marilyn Frye -- Some Reflections on Separatism and Power 23. Patricia S. Mann -- Glancing at Pornography Recognizing Men 24. Diana Tietjens Meyers -- The Family Romance A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy PART 5 SOCIAL IDENTITY, SOLIDARITY, AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT 25. Nancy C. M. Hartsock -- The Feminist Standpoint Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism 26. bell hooks -- Sisterhood Political Solidarity Between Women 27. Donna Haraway -- A Manifesto for Cyborgs Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s 28. Chantal Mouffe -- Feminism, Citizenship, and Radical Democratic Politics PART 6 CARE AND ITS CRITICS 29. Carol Gilligan -- In a Different Voice Women's Conceptions of Self and of Morality 30. Sara Ruddick -- Maternal Thinking 31. Annette Baier -- Trust and Antitrust 32. Virginia Held -- Feminism and Moral Theory 33. Claudia Card -- Gender and Moral Luck 34. Marilyn Friedman -- Beyond Caring The De-Moralization of Gender 35. Michele M. Moody-Adams -- Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices PART 7 WOMEN, EQUALITY, AND JUSTICE 36. Wendy W. Williams -- The Equality Crisis Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism 37. Christine A. Littleton -- Reconstructing Sexual Equality 38. Seyla Benhabib -- The Generalized and the Concrete Other The Kohlberg-Gilligan Controversy and Moral Theory 39. Joan W. Scott -- Deconstructing Equality-Versus-Difference Or, the Uses of Poststructuralist Theory for Feminism