Linda Nicholson is Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, and Women's Studies at the State University of New York, Albany. She is the author of Gender and History (1986), editor of Feminism/Postmodernism (Routledge, 1990) and the co- editor with Steven Seidman of SocialPostmodernism. She is editor of Routledge's ThinkingGender series.

Introduction; PART 1: EARLY STATEMENTS:, 1. Simone de Beauvoir--Introduction to The Second Sex , 2. Shulamith Firestone--The Dialectic of Sex , 3. Gayle Rubin--The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex, 4. The Combahee River Collective--A Black Feminist Statement, 5. Wendy W. Williams--The Equality Crisis: Some Reflections on Culture, Courts, and Feminism , PART 2: WITH AND AGAINST MARX:, 6. Heidi Hartman--The Unhappy Mariage of Marxism and Feminism: Towards a More Progressive Union, 7. Michele Barrett--Capitalism and Women's Liberation, 8. Linda Nicholson--Feminism and Marx: Integrating Kinship with the Economic, PART 3: GYNOCENTRISM: WOMEN'SOPPRESSION, WOMEN'S IDENTITY, AND WOMEN'S STANDPOINT:, 9. Radicalesbians--The Woman Identified Woman, 10. Catharine A. MacKinnon--Sexuality, 11. Nancy Chodorow--The Psychodynamics of the Family , 12. Carol Gilligan--Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle , 13. Nancy C. M. Hartsock--The Feminist Standpoint:Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism, 14. Patricia Hill Collins--Defining Black Feminist Thought, PART 4: THEORIZINGDIFFERENCE/DECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY:, 15. Monique Wittig--One is Not Born a Woman;, 16. Elsa Barkley Brown--What has Happened Here? The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics, 17. Norma Alarcon--The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism, 18. Judith Butler--Imitation and Gender Insubordination, PART 5: THE QUESTION OF ESSENTIALISM:, 19. Luce Irigaray--This Sex Which is Not One, 20. Linda Alcoff-- Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: An Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory, 21. Gayatri Spivak with Ellen Rooney--In a Word, Interview, 22. Nancy Fraser-- Structuralism or Pragmatics? On Discourse Theory and Feminist Politics, 23. Uma Narayan--Contesting Cultures: Westernization, Respect for Cultures, and Third-World Feminists.