This book presents an original and groundbreaking approach to gender inequality. Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a

An interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category

This book shows that the metaphor of the quintessentially feminine art of weaving in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo

Examines the real world of women's health status and health-care delivery in different countries, and the assumptions behind the dominant medical model of solvi

This is the first book to analyse the complexities of women's political participation on a cross-national scale and from a feminist perspective. Surveying forty