Making a Difference: Psychology and the Construction of Gender

Drawing on postmodernist skepticism about what we know and how we know it, and on recent developments in the philosophy of science and feminist theory, five leaders in feminist psychology offer a new perspective on the meaning of gender, one that is not determined by the traditional focus on male-female differences.

"These brilliant and provocative essays step back from the trees—the millions of studies of sex and gender difference, non-differences, and meta-differences—and show us instead ...