Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Feminist knowledge : critique and construct

Black women and women's liberation / Jackie Huggins

Aboriginal women, separate spaces, and feminism / Diane Bell

Sisterhood / Bell Hooks (Gloria Watkins)

Part II. Feminist knowledge and women's studies

The uneasy alliance of feminism and academia / Marian Lowe and Margaret Lowe Benston

From margin to mainstream / Susan Sheridan

What's new in women's history / Linda Gordon

Part III. Male theories of power

Gender and dichotomy / Nancy Joy

Part IV. Feminism and subjectivity

An impasse in psychoanalysis and feminism / Teresa Brennan

A critique of the sex/gender distinction / Moira Gatens

Part VI. Psychoanalysis and feminism

This sex which is not one / Luce Irigaray

Jacques Lacan / Ellie Ragland-Sullivan

The laugh of the Medusa / Helene Cixous

Part VII. Biology and feminism

The politics of right and left / Susan Leigh Star

Science and gender / Ruth Bleier

Part VIII. Religion

Bread not stone / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Renewal or new creation? / Rosemary Radford Ruether

Why women need the goddess / Carol P. Chirst

Part IX. Radical feminism

We are the feminist that women have warned us about / Jessica York [and eight others]

In defence of separatism / Susan Hawthorne

Not for lesbians only / Charlotte Bunch

The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anna Koedt

The spiritual dimension of women's liberation / Mary Daty

The visionary task : two sights-seeing / Janice Raymond

Part X. Socialist feminist intervention

Lords of creation / Barbara Taylor

Love's labours lost / Mia Campioni and Elizabeth Grosz