Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction and overview. Part 2 Biological essentialism: the Biological Politics of the Late-l9th and Early 20th Centuries; The Modern Period I - Just-So Stories of Socio-Biology; The Modern Period II - Prenatal Hormone Theory; An Alternative Hypothesis - The Body in Context; But Are There Really No Biological Differences Beyond the Body?. Part 3 Andocentrism: Judaeo-Christian Theology; Ancient Greek Philosophy; Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory; American Equal-Rights Law. Part 4 Gender Polarization: The Nineteenth Century: Sexual Inversion; The Twentieth Century I - Homosexuality; The Twentieth Century II - Masculinity/Femininity; Beyond Science: The Feminist Celebration of Female Differences. Part 5 The Construction of Individual Gender Identity: Previous Theoretical Perspectives; The Process of Enculturation; The Process of Self-Construction; Resisting the Culture's Lenses - The Making of a Gender Nonconformist. Part 6 Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality: The Conundrum of Difference; Toward True Gender Neutrality - Eradicating Androcentrism; Toward Utopia - Eradicating Gender Polarization.