This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

Lynne Segal is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London.

This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

Preface.

Introduction: Why Feminism?.

1. Generations of Feminism.

2. Gender to Queer, and Back Again.

3. Genes and Gender: The Return to Darwin.

4. Psychic Life and its Scandals.

5. Gender Anxieties at the Limits of Psychology.

6. Cautionary Tales: Between Freud and Feminism.

7. Only Contradictions on Offer: Feminism at the Millennium.

Notes.

Index.