Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
pt. 1. Feminist practice: The personal is political -- The contemporary women's movement -- From suffrage to sexuality -- pt. 2. Feminist theory -- Toward a method for understanding gender -- Gender and modernity: reinterpreting the family, the state and the economy -- pt. 3. Political theory -- John Locke: the theoretical separation of the family and the state -- Karl Marx: the theoretical separation of the domestic and the economic