Introduction : tending the embers = 1
CHAPTER 1. Confronting the bonds of ideology : feminist theory in the Cold War years = 11
CHAPTER 2. The setting : postwar politics in Britain, France, and the United States = 35
CHAPTER 3. On the path to gender : Margaret Mead, socialization, and sex role ideology = 73
CHAPTER 4. Mirra Komarovsky : functional analysis and the poignant signs of discontent = 107
CHAPTER 5. Viola Klein : sociology of knowledge and the so-called feminine character = 133
CHAPTER 6. Simone de Beauvoir and The second sex = 165
CHAPTER 7. No woman is an island : Ruth Herschberger and postwar pollination = 195
CHAPTER 8. When sex became gender = 213
CHAPTER 1. Confronting the bonds of ideology : feminist theory in the Cold War years = 11
CHAPTER 2. The setting : postwar politics in Britain, France, and the United States = 35
CHAPTER 3. On the path to gender : Margaret Mead, socialization, and sex role ideology = 73
CHAPTER 4. Mirra Komarovsky : functional analysis and the poignant signs of discontent = 107
CHAPTER 5. Viola Klein : sociology of knowledge and the so-called feminine character = 133
CHAPTER 6. Simone de Beauvoir and The second sex = 165
CHAPTER 7. No woman is an island : Ruth Herschberger and postwar pollination = 195
CHAPTER 8. When sex became gender = 213