Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: Taking a Break from Feminism -- The Argument -- My Complete and Total Lack of Objectivity -- Taxonomies and Terms -- m/f, m > f, and Carrying a Brief for f -- Governance Feminism -- Feminism, Sexual and Reproductive -- A Sex Lexicon -- Convergentism and Divergentism -- A Story of Sexual-Subordination Feminism and Its Others -- Liberation and Responsibility -- PART TWO: The Political/Theoretical Struggle over Taking a Break -- Before the Break: Some Feminist Priors -- Power Feminism -- Cultural Feminism -- Liberal Feminism -- Convergentist and Divergentist Hybrid Feminism -- The Break -- Gay Identity/Feminism/Queer Theory -- Receiving French Social Theory -- The Split, from Feminism and within It -- Feminism from Its Outside: Queer Theory by Men -- Feminism and Its Others -- Feminist "Paralysis" -- 1990-2000: From Political to Ethical Feminism -- 1990-95: Getting to Deadlock -- Around 1993: Mapping Feminism and Queer Theory -- 1998: Trans Theory Splits While Staying in Place -- PART THREE: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism -- Taking a Break to Decide (I) -- The Costs of "Making Difference Costless" -- Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services -- The Costs and Benefits of Taking a Break from Feminism -- The Costs -- The Benefits -- Taking a Break to Decide (II) -- Twyman v. Twyman -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.