Includes bibliographies and index.

Political philosophies of women's liberation / Alison Jaggar -- Toward a phenomenology of feminist consciousness / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Androgyny as an ideal for human development / Ann Ferguson -- Two forms of androgynism / Joyce Trebilcot -- The feminine as a universal / Anne Dickason -- Sexism and semantics / Patrick Grim -- Traits and genderization / Elizabeth L. Beardsley -- The myth of the neutral "man" / Janice Moulton -- The hidden joke : generic uses of masculine terminology / Carolyn Korsmeyer -- Linguistics and feminism / Virginia Valian -- How do we know when opportunities are equal? / Onora O'Neill -- Preferential treatment / Lawrence Crocker -- On preferential treatment / Robert K. Fullinwider -- Limits to the justification of reverse discrimination / Alan H. Goldman -- On the nature and value of marriage / Lyla H. O'Driscoll -- Liberalism and marriage law / Sara Ann Ketchum -- The myth of the complete person / Joseph E. Barnhart & Mary Ann Barnhart -- The separation of marriage and family / Joseph Margolis & Clorinda Margolis -- Rape : the all-American crime / Susan Griffin -- Rape and respect / Carolyn M. Shafer & Marilyn Frye -- What's wrong with rape / Pamela Foa --Coercion & rape : the state as a male protection racket / Susan Rae Peterson -- The Roman Catholic doctrine of therapeutic abortion / Susan T. Nicholson -- One step forward, two steps backward : abortion and ethical theory / Elizabeth Rapaport & Paul Sagal -- Abortion and the concept of a person / Jane English -- Abortion and the quality of life / Howard Cohen.