Bringing together a collection of writings from across the social sciences which critique mainstream thinking in the psychology of women and gender and exemplify ways of creating inquiry, this text examines such areas as masculinity, gender differences in schools and black feminist thought.

Introduction Toward a New Psychology of Gender, Sara N. Davis, Mary Gergen; Part I Linking Feminism and Psychology; Chapter 1 Regarding Gender, Janis S. Bohan; Chapter 2 Feminist Poststructuralism and Discourse Analysis, Nicola Gavey; Chapter 3 Feminism and Psychology, Mary Brown Parlee; Part II Connecting With Others; Chapter 4 Making Sense, Margery B. Franklin; Chapter 5 Writing Ethnography, Carol B. Stack; Chapter 6 Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian Women, M. Brinton Lykes; Chapter 7 Linguistic Repertoires and Literary Criticism, Margaret Wetherell; Part III Challenging Differences; Chapter 8 Femininity as Performance, Valerie Walkerdine; Chapter 9 Children and Gender, Barrie Thorne; Chapter 10 Life Stories, Mary Gergen; Chapter 11 Masculinity as Homophobia, Michael S. Kimmel; Part IV Open to Interpretation; Chapter 12 Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil, Lama Abu Odeh; Chapter 13 “They Have Eyes and See Not”, Dafna N. Izraeli; Chapter 14 Agreeing to Differ, Mary Crawford; Chapter 15 Corpses, Lepers, and Menstruating Women, Nancy Datan; Chapter 16 New Voices, New Visions, Laura S. Brown; Part V Contested Relations; Chapter 17 Forgotten Forms of Close Combat, Jane Flax; Chapter 18 The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother/Daughter Relationships, Patricia Hill Collins; Chapter 19 Like Family, Michael A. Messner; Part VI Sexuality and Pleasure; Chapter 20 Sexual Biology and The Symbolism of The Natural, Leonore Tiefer; Chapter 21 Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolscent Females, Michelle Fine; Chapter 22 Virgins and Queers, Celia Kitzinger, Sue Wilkinson; Part VII Gender & Identity; Chapter 23 Anorexia Nervosa, Susan Bordo; Chapter 24 Gender Identities at the Crossroads of Masculinity and Physical Disability, Thomas J. Gerschick, Adam Stephen Miller; Part VIII Power; Chapter 25 Women, Aids, and Power in Heterosexual Sex, Lesley Miles; Chapter 26 Gender Displays and Men’s Power, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Michael A. Messner; Chapter 27 Essentialism, Women, and War, Susan Oyama; Chapter 28 Feminist Politicization, bell hooks; Part XI Breaking Out; Chapter 29 Disappearances, Silences, and Anxious Rhetoric, Jeanne Marecek; Chapter 30 Discourse in the Mirrored Room, Rachel T. Hare-Mustin; Chapter 31 Love And Violence, Virginia Goldner, Peggy Penn, Marcia Sheinberg, Gillian Walker; Part X Postscript; Chapter 32 Skipping Stone, Mary Gergen;

"[An] enormously rich volume . . . The wealth of this volume comes from the inclusion of cross-cultural work, literary-critical trends, analyses of masculinity, offerings from gay and lesbian perspectives, family and clinical studies--thirty-two papers in all. . . . A review of this book cannot do it justice. . . . [R]eading this multidimensional book makes one envision a marvelous common ground between feminists and phenomenologists." -- Journal of Phenomenological Psychology