Selection of over 140 readings in women's studies in fourteen sections: feminist social theory: psychological and psychoanalytic theory: cross-cultural and historical perspectives on women's lives: education and work: marriage and motherhood: sexuality: the law: crime and deviance: politics and the state: science, medicine and reproductive technology: language and gender: feminist literary criticism: representations of women in the media.
Contains articles on: symbolic dimensions of pornography: the history of male sexuality in law: the question of context in feminist jurisprudence: the essential in criticism: international slave trade in women: racial difference and the white middle-class women's movement.