Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.

In and out of the frame : a personal history of gender -- What's in a name? Meanings and usages of gender -- Gendering and class : growing up girl, growing up boy -- Gender and modernity -- 'What's it all about?' Being a man in the twenty-first century -- Gender and postmodernity -- 'Sisters under their skins?' Identities in a global age -- Gendered worlds : production -- Having it all : family and employment in women's lives -- Gendered worlds : reproduction -- Men marriage and emotions : arrangements between the sexes -- Gendered worlds : consumption -- It doesn't have to be this way : gendered Utopias -- Conclusion : what the future holds : gender, theory and politics.