Introduction: the editors
Points of departure : gender & power and its sequels
"Theories don't grow on trees" : contextualizing gender knowledge / Myra Marx Ferree
Hegemonic, nonhegemonic, and "new" masculinities / James W. Messerschmidt and Michael A. Messner
From object to subject : situating transgender lives in sociology / Kristen Schilt
The larger scope of gender analysis
Postcoloniality and the sociology of gender / Raka Ray
Race, indigeneity, and gender : lessons for global feminism / Mara Viveros Vigoya
Categories, structures, and intersectional theory / Joya Misra
Four dimensions of relationship, struggle, and change
Why "heteronormativity" is not enough : a feminist sociological perspective on heterosexuality / Stevi Jackson
Gender inequality and feminism in the new economy / Christine L. Williams and Megan Tobias Neely
Gender politics in academia in the neoliberal age / Barbara Poggio
The holy grail of organizational change : toward gender equality at work / Yvonne Benschop and Marieke van den Brink
Dynamics of masculinities
Concerning tradition in studies on men and masculinities in ex-colonies / Kopano Ratele
Rethinking patriarchy through unpatriarchal male desires / Gul Ozyegin
On the elasticity of gender hegemony : why hybrid masculinities fail to undermine gender and sexual inequality / Tristan Bridges and C. J. Pascoe
Agendas for theory
Limitations of the neoliberal turn in gender theory : (re)turning to gender as a social structure / Barbara J. Risman, Kristen Myers, and Ray Sin
Paradoxes of gender redux : multiple genders and the persistence of the binary / Judith Lorber
The monogamous couple, gender hegemony, and polyamory / Mimi Schippers
Conclusion: theory work, or reckoning with gender / Raewyn Connell
About the contributors
Index
Notes.