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“Sexual difference” as a book category encompasses works that examine how differences associated with sex and gender are defined, lived, represented, and debated across cultures and time. It includes scholarship from feminist and queer theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, and the sciences, exploring how ideas of femininity and masculinity are constructed and embodied; how language, literature, law, medicine, and media shape understandings of sex and gender; and how these notions influence subjectivity, desire, kinship, rights, and social institutions. Books in this category often engage debates over essentialism versus social construction, the ethics and politics of equality and difference, and the intersections of sex and gender with race, class, disability, religion, and globalization. Suitable for academic and general readers, the category foregrounds critical inquiry into how societies conceptualize, regulate, and transform sexual difference.

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