Introduction: What are masculinity and femininity, anyway?
Part 1: Myths and archetypes : binary oppositions in the original
Part 2: The classical periods : gender as a question of virtue and polity
Part 3: Early modernity : the developing conflict within "humanism"
Part 4: The nineteenth century : liberalism and romanticism
Part 5: The early twentieth century : scientism and moralism
Part 6: The late twentieth century : a politics of words.