| Series Editor's Preface | |
| Dedication | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| Selection 1 | from The Second Sex | 3 |
| Selection 2 | from Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? | 16 |
| Selection 3 | from Gender, Relation, and Difference in Psychoanalytic Perspective | 25 |
| Selection 4 | from Mothering and the Reproduction of Power | 41 |
| Selection 5 | from Human Biology in Feminist Theory: Sexual Equality Reconsidered | 48 |
| Selection 6 | from Do Women Have a Distinct Nature? | 56 |
| Selection 7 | from A Feminist Aspect Theory of the Self? | 66 |
| Selection 8 | from Re-Creating Sexual Politics: Men, Feminism, and Politics | 74 |
| Selection 9 | from Gender Trouble | 80 |
| Selection 10 | from The Politics of Reality | 91 |
| Selection 11 | from Femininity and Domination | 103 |
| Selection 12 | from Masculinity and Power | 113 |
| Selection 13 | from This Sex Which Is Not One | 120 |
| Selection 14 | from Audre Lorde's (Nonessentialist) Lesbian Eros | 128 |
| Selection 15 | from Gender and History | 139 |
| Selection 16 | from Inessential Woman | 148 |
| Selection 17 | from The Alchemy of Race and Rights | 155 |
| Selection 18 | from Black Feminist Thought | 159 |
| Selection 19 | from The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Non-Western Feminist | 172 |
| Selection 20 | from The Science Question in Feminism | 183 |
| Selection 21 | The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex to Gender as Nature Is to Science? | 195 |
| Selection 22 | from The Woman Question: Philosophy of Liberation and the Liberation of Philosophy | 207 |
| Selection 23 | from The Man of Reason | 225 |
| Selection 24 | from Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory | 231 |
| Selection 25 | from Postmodernism and Other Skepticisms | 243 |
| Selection 26 | from Feminism, Postmodernism, and Gender-Skepticism | 250 |
| Selection 27 | from Noncontractual Society: A Feminist View | 261 |
| Selection 28 | from Moral Orientation and Moral Development | 272 |
| Selection 29 | from Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn About Morality from Caring? | 282 |
| Selection 30 | from The Generalized and the Concrete Other | 290 |
| Selection 31 | from Maternal Thinking | 299 |
| Selection 32 | from The Social Self and the Partiality Debates | 306 |
| Selection 33 | from The Sexual Contract | 317 |
| Selection 34 | from Feminism and Democratic Community Revisited | 325 |
| Selection 35 | from Justice, Gender, and the Family | 337 |
| Selection 36 | from On Racism and Sexism | 347 |
| Selection 37 | from The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public | 359 |
| Selection 38 | from Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy | 369 |
| Selection 39 | from The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism | 375 |
| Selection 40 | Human Rights as Men's Rights | 384 |
| Selection 41 | from Making All the Difference | 397 |
| Selection 42 | from Feminist Critical Theories | 408 |
| Selection 43 | from Women and Their Privacy: What Is at Stake? | 417 |
| Selection 44 | from Pornography and the Erotics of Domination | 424 |
| Selection 45 | from Only Words | 434 |
| Selection 46 | from Preventing Birth | 447 |
| Selection 47 | from Selling Babies and Selling Bodies | 457 |
| Selection 48 | Commodification or Compensation: A Reply to Ketchum | 468 |