A story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.

A stunning re-issue of one of the most outstanding and enduring classics of science fiction.

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

A memoir that tells how the author dated women, joined a bowling league, visited strip bars, retreated to a monastery, got a job in sales and even infiltrated a men's therapy group. It provides an account of what it is to be a man - and a woman - in the modern world.

A work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, which stands - almost five decades after its first appearance - as the first landmark in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and womankind in our time.

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

This workbook aims to provide a practical approach to living with or without a gender. It starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework.

In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his desperate family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment, the boy was surgically altered to live life as a girl. Massive campaign planned. The Observer will be running an extract on Sunday February 13th 2000.

Develops the theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. This work offers a reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. It argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start.

Her international bestseller, the book that shows us at last, why we find it so difficult to talk to the opposite sex. Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture.

Presents an analysis of the position of women in Western society.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

In this anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity.

Based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge.

A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The novel explores the body as a physical entity and as an image of our innermost selves in order to reveal more about the phenomenon of love.

A classic SF tale of what happens when four alternative selves from different realities meet. New edition.

An account of the war against women, the insidiously manipulated political and cultural backlash against the hard-won equality and independence which women achieved in the 1970s and 1980s. Using examples from all areas of public life, Faludi presents a picture of the erosion of women's status.

Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy.

Picks up where Faludi's previous book Backlash left off. It seeks to understand male behaviour in order to close the chasm between the sexes, and asks why men are so fearful and aggressive in the face of women's independence

A phenomenon: a play that has changed thousands of lives and inspired a dynamic new women's movement With a foreword by Gloria Steinem