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