The contributors to this volume refine ideas that have been part of the conceptual toolkit of gender scholarship from its inception, identifying new applications for the concepts of the public/private dichotomy and of patriarchy. Contents: Advancing gender research across, beyond, and through disciplines and paradigms: Gender hierarchy in motel work: a macro-sociological and micro-economic analysis: Shifting definitions of the public-private dichotomy: legislative inertia on garment homework in Ontario: Rethinking binary conceptions and social constructions: transgender experiences of gender and sexuality: Listening to women's voices: toward a comparative politics of women's difference: Bo tat quan (the) am: women and Vietnam's 'Mother Buddha': A rose is not a Rosa is not a Rosann is not a Rosemary: the many names of Mary Elizabeth Roberts Smith Coolidge.