Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-273) and index.
Contents
Generations of Feminism -- Acts of Memory -- Dubious Contrasts -- Rowbotham's 'Seventies' Feminism -- The Collapse of a Vision -- A New Fundamentalism -- The Turn to 'Theory' -- Political Agendas -- Gender to Queer, and Back Again -- The Rise of Gender Theory -- The Allure of Difference -- The Romance of Otherness -- The Joys of Queer -- Transgender Dialogues -- Back to Gender? -- The Future of Gender -- Genes and Gender: The Return to Darwin -- Science versus Culture? -- Survival and Sexual Selection -- Evolutionary Psychology: The New Contender -- The Tale of the Female Ape -- Theoretical Pluralists: The Enemy Within -- Gene Talk versus Social Change -- For Epistemic Diversity -- Psychic Life and its Scandals -- Tricks of Memory -- Dilemmas of Science -- Troubled Vision -- Feminist Denunciations -- Fantasy versus Trauma -- Models of Memory -- Memory as Narrative -- Betrayal versus Abuse? -- Narratives in Context -- Gender Anxieties at the Limits of Psychology -- Feminism Enters the Academy -- Still Searching for Sex Differences -- Feminist Psychology and Social Constructionism -- Openness to Gender Heterodoxy -- The Predicament of Men -- Projects for Reforming Masculinity -- Deconstructing Gender -- Subjectivity and Change -- Cautionary Tales: Between Freud and Feminism -- Opening Skirmishes -- Imagining the Void -- Oedipal Dramas and the Crisis of Paternal Authority -- The First Bond and its Consequences -- Retrenchment versus Renewal? -- Sexual Difference versus Gender: Accepting Ambiguity.