Mary Evans is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"A perceptive, focused essay...Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University

• Acknowledgements viiPreface viii1 What is Gender Inequality? 1Making Inequality 5What Has Changed? 10Changing Conditions 122 Worlds of Inequality 23Exploiting the Feminine 25Problems at Work 30Problems of Agency 35Locations of Inequality 383 Problems of Subjectivity 47Imagining the Female Body 48Other Bodies 53How the Body Matters 58Questions of Order 614 Enter Feminism 76Conditions for Feminism 76A Secondary Sex 82Changing Times 87Unchanging Times 975 Making Gender Equality 120The Rights of Women 122The Limits of Liberalism 130Notes 140Bibliography 152Index 166

Mary Evans is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"A perceptive, focused essay...Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University

• Acknowledgements viiPreface viii1 What is Gender Inequality? 1Making Inequality 5What Has Changed? 10Changing Conditions 122 Worlds of Inequality 23Exploiting the Feminine 25Problems at Work 30Problems of Agency 35Locations of Inequality 383 Problems of Subjectivity 47Imagining the Female Body 48Other Bodies 53How the Body Matters 58Questions of Order 614 Enter Feminism 76Conditions for Feminism 76A Secondary Sex 82Changing Times 87Unchanging Times 975 Making Gender Equality 120The Rights of Women 122The Limits of Liberalism 130Notes 140Bibliography 152Index 166

Mary Evans is Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"A perceptive, focused essay...Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University

• Acknowledgements viiPreface viii1 What is Gender Inequality? 1Making Inequality 5What Has Changed? 10Changing Conditions 122 Worlds of Inequality 23Exploiting the Feminine 25Problems at Work 30Problems of Agency 35Locations of Inequality 383 Problems of Subjectivity 47Imagining the Female Body 48Other Bodies 53How the Body Matters 58Questions of Order 614 Enter Feminism 76Conditions for Feminism 76A Secondary Sex 82Changing Times 87Unchanging Times 975 Making Gender Equality 120The Rights of Women 122The Limits of Liberalism 130Notes 140Bibliography 152Index 166