De analyse van het werk van Mary Wollstonecraft loopt als rode draad door de hoofdstukken in deze bundel over seksisme in literaire teksten en over discussies over gender onder vooral zwarte en allochtone wetenschappers in Canada.
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.