The Persistence of Gender Inequality (Paperback)

Acknowledgements vii

Preface viii

1 What is Gender Inequality? 1

Making Inequality 5

What Has Changed? 10

Changing Conditions 12

2 Worlds of Inequality 23

Exploiting the Feminine 25

Problems at Work 30

Problems of Agency 35

Locations of Inequality 38

3 Problems of Subjectivity 47

Imagining the Female Body 48

Other Bodies 53

How the Body Matters 58

Questions of Order 61

4 Enter Feminism 76

Conditions for Feminism 76

A Secondary Sex 82

Changing Times 87

Unchanging Times 97

5 Making Gender Equality 120

The Rights of Women 122

The Limits of Liberalism 130

Notes 140

Bibliography 152

Index 166