Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Reorienting the feminist imagination. Mapping the feminist imagination: from redistribution to recognition to representation / Nancy Fraser -- Perspectives on gender equality: challenging the terms of debate / Valerie Bryson -- When will society be gender just? / Ingrid Robeyns. Pt. II. Variations on the theme of gender. Does biology play any role in sex differences in the mind? / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Sex and the social construction of gender: can feminism and evolutionary psychology by reconciled? / Susan Hurley -- 'Trans' trouble: trans-sexuality and the end of gender / Terrell Carver -- Gender and social change / Tony Lawson --Procreative mothers (sexual difference) and child-free sisters (gender) / Juliet Mitchell. Pt. III. Gender and political practice. The politics of female diversity in the twenty-first century / Catherine Hakim -- Gender inequality and the gendered division of labour / Rosemary Crompton -- The principle of equal treatment and gender: theory and practice / Jude Browne.