Gender / [electronic resource] edited by Carol C. Gould.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Selection 1. from The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- Selection 2. from Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? / Sherry B. Ortner -- Selection 3. from Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective / Nancy J. Chodorow -- Selection 4. from Mothering and the Reproduction of Power / Roger S. Gottlieb -- Selection 5. from Human Biology in Feminist Theory: Sexual Equality Reconsidered / Alison M. Jaggar -- Selection 6. from Do Women Have a Distinct Nature? / Nancy Holmstrom -- Selection 7. from A Feminist Aspect Theory of the Self? / Ann Ferguson -- Selection 8. from Re-Creating Sexual Politics: Men, Feminism, and Politics / Victor J. Seidler -- Selection 9. from Gender Trouble / Judith Butler -- Selection 10. from The Politics of Reality / Marilyn Frye -- Selection 11. from Femininity and Domination / Sandra Lee Bartky -- Selection 12. from Masculinity and Power / Arthur Brittan -- Selection 13. from This Sex Which Is Not One / Luce Irigaray.

Here is a comprehensive collection of the most important essays on gender in the last two decades. It presents lively, controversial and critical discussions concerning such themes as the social constitution of gender; the nature of sexual oppression; the relation of gender to family, class, race and culture; and feminist perspectives on science and philosophy. It also includes leading essays on questions of ethics and difference in the law, such as privacy, pornography and reproductive rights. It is an indispensable text for courses in feminist philosophy and theories of gender, as well as an important resource for scholars in philosophy and the social sciences.