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| General Editor's Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Gender before Modernity | |
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| Gender and polarity | |
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| Nature/culture: Sex/gender | |
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| What sort of difference is gender difference? | |
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| Essence and gender | |
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| The gender of souls | |
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| Matter and the realisation of gender | |
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| Gender without sex | |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
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| Gender as Form and the Masculinity of Reason | |
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| The gender of form and reason | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| Binaries of reason and gender: Genevieve Lloyd | |
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| Paradise Lost | |
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| Modernity and the Materiality of Gender | |
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| Sex and matter: Modern empiricism and liberalism | |
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| Third-wave feminism: Reality and essence | |
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| Subjectivity, ideas and experience | |
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| Man and modern subjectivity | |
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| Modern science and mathematics | |
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| Patriarchy | |
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| Patriarchy and the sexual contract: Carole Pateman | |
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| Sex without Gender | |
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| First-wave feminism and the sex/gender distinction | |
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| Enlightenment feminism | |
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| Marriage and gender harmony | |
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| Second-wave feminism and difference | |
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| Psychoanalytic feminism | |
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| The Oedipal production of gender | |
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| Beyond Sex and Gender | |
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| Third-wave feminism | |
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| Difference before sex and gender | |
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| Lacan and the subject of signification | |
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| Levi-Strauss and the exchange of women | |
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| Sexual Difference and Embodiment | |
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| Lacan, negativity and desire | |
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| The body | |
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| Luce Irigaray and the positive feminine | |
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| Sexuality and Queer Theory | |
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| Michel Foucault and the history of sexuality | |
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| Performativity | |
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| Volatile bodies | |
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| Queer theory and the critique of gender: Butler, Sedgwick, Edelman and Bersani | |
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| Moira Gatens and the critique of gender | |
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| Conclusion: Reading Gender | |
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| Frankenstein | |
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| First-wave feminist and humanist reading | |
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| Second-wave or radical feminist readings | |
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| Third-wave feminist readings | |
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| Reading gender | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |