Introduction - H Lorraine Radtke and Henderikus J Stam
Power/Sex - Marilyn French
Resistance - Karlene Faith
Lessons from Foucault and Feminism
Into the Realm of the Fearful - Deborah Kerfoot and David Knights
Power, Identity and the Gender Problematic
Female Powerlessness - Hilary M Lips
A Case of `Cultural Preparedness¿?
The Existential Basis of Power Relationships - Jean Lipman-Blumen
The Gender Role Case
The State, Gender and Sexual Politics - R W Connell
Theory and Appraisal
Notes toward a Political Theory of Sex and Power - Jill Vickers
Problematizing Pleasure - Celia Kitzinger
Radical Feminist Deconstructions of Sexuality and Power
Post-Modernizing Gender - Lorraine Weir
From Adrienne Rich to Judith Butler
Over Dinner - Michelle Fine and Pat Macpherson
Feminism and Adolescent Female Bodies
Separation, Integration and Difference - Wendy Hollway
Contradictions in a Gender Regime
Women in Women¿s Organizations - Eliane Leslau Silverman
Power or Pouvoir
On Oppressing Hypotheses; or Differences in Nonverbal Sensitivity Revisited - Marianne LaFrance and Nancy M Henley

This book investigates the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations, demonstrating how gender is constructed through the practices of power.

The contributors argue that `female' and `male' are shaped not only at the micro-level of everyday social interaction but also at the macro-level where social institutions control and regulate the practice of gender. Power/Gender explores: how theorizing on power is affected when gender is taken into account; post-Foucauldian theory of gender and power; whether it is possible to separate gender and power; the connections between gender and the practice of power in political contexts, and how these connections work in the specific contexts of women's lives; and whether the construction of sex or gender is an expression of power relations.