COVER -- Preface to the 2011 Edition -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction I -- Introduction II -- Part one Conceptual Frameworks -- Chapter one A feminist perspective in family therapy -- Chapter two Equality, asymmetry, and diversity: on conceptualizations of gender -- Part two Strategies of Intervention -- Chapter three Feminism and family therapy: can mixed marriages work? -- Chapter four Feminism and strategic therapy: contradiction or complementarity? 1 -- Chapter five The struggle towards a feminist practice in family therapy: premisses -- Chapter six The struggle towards a feminist practice in family therapy: practice -- Part three Applications: Specific Clinical Issues -- Chapter seven The mother-daughter relationship and the distortion of reality in childhood sexual abuse -- Chapter eight Intelligence, achievement, and gender: the ramifications of a case-study -- Chapter nine Working with women in families -- Part four What About Men? -- Chapter ten The place of men in a gender-sensitive therapy -- Chapter eleven Masculinity and family work -- Part five Applications: Wider Systems -- Chapter twelve 'The little woman' and the world of work -- Chapter thirteen Why a group for women only? -- Chapter fourteen Psychotherapy, oppression and social action: gender, race, and class in black women's depression -- Name index -- Subject index.