Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Of silverbacks and tree houses -- Chapter 1 - When the patriarchy gets worried -- Chapter 2 - Neither young, nor luscious, nor sycophantic -- Chapter 3 - The new forms possible to women? The achievements of feminist sociology -- Chapter 4 - Organising the Necessary Work: The question(s) of method(s) -- Chapter 5 - Uncovential but seething: Were there any founding mothers? -- Chapter 6 - The brotherhood of professors, males all: The founding fathers of sociology -- Chapter 7 - Simply invisible: Feminist sociology and the malestream -- Chapter 8 - Making fictions of female destiny: Postmodernism and postfeminism -- Chapter 9 - Prerogatives usurped? Conclusions -- Appendix 1: A critique of the orthodox histories of sociology -- Appendix 2: The autobiographical narratives -- Bibliography -- Index.