"Originally published in Great Britain by Martin Robertson & Company Ltd (1981).--Title page verso. Includes index.

Citizenship : Emancipation -- Liberation? ; The Making of a Woman : Genes and gender -- A kind of person -- Childhood lessons -- Education for womanhood ; Labour : Employment -- Domestic work -- Reproduction ; Relationships : Children -- Men -- Sisterhood ; Power : Class categories -- Politics in a man's world ; A Subject Gender : Studying women -- The rise of the second sex.