Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference / [electronic resource] edited by Deborah L. Rhode.

Outgrowth of a conference sponsored by Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender in 1987.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-304) and index.

Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference / Deborah L. Rhode -- Feminism and sexual difference in historical perspective / Karen Offen -- Feminist postmodernism : the end of feminism or the ends of theory? / Regenia Gagnier -- Darwinians confront gender : or, there is more to it than history / Carl N. Degler -- Global versus local perspectives on sexual difference / John Dupré -- The political nature of "human nature" / Ruth Hubbard -- Perspectives on sociobiology, feminism, and the law / Herma Hill Kay -- A social-psychological model of gender / Kay Deaux and Brenda Major -- Children and gender : constructions of difference / Barrie Thorne -- What is the relation between psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women? / Nancy J. Chodorow.

The mode of reproduction in anthropology / Sylvia J. Yanagisako and Jane F. Collier -- Thinking like a woman / Susan Moller Okin -- Ethics from the standpoint of women / Nel Noddings -- The possibility of feminist theory / Marilyn Frye -- Feminism : a transformational politic / Bell Hooks -- Definitions of difference / Deborah L. Rhode -- Legal perspectives on sexual difference / Catharine A. MacKinnon -- Gender difference and beyond : an economic perspective on diversity and commonality among women / Julianne Malveaux -- Sexual difference and sexual equality / Alison M. Jaggar -- Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference : an overview / Estelle B. Freedman.