Introduction - Ruth A Wallace PART ONE: ENLARGING THE HORIZONS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY The Dissemination of Feminist Thought - Jessie Bernard 1960-1988 Sociological Theory - Dorothy E Smith Methods of Writing Patriarchy Making Gender Visible - Joan Acker Psychoanalytic Feminism - Edith Kurzweil Implications for Sociological Theory PART TWO: CRITIQUE AND RE-EVALUATION OF EXISTING THEORIES Feminism and the Theories of Talcott Parsons - Miriam M Johnson Habermas and Feminism - Thomas Meisenhelder The Future of Critical Theory PART THREE: EMERGING FEMINIST THEORIES Gender Equality - Janet Saltzman Chafetz Toward a Theory of Change Toward a Feminist Theory of Development - Rae Lesser Blumberg Reflections on Feminist Theory - Rose Laub Coser