ABSTRACT
This book has offered a theorization of why and how, in contemporary societies characterized by formal-legal equality and women’s relative economic independence from individual men, women continue to be subordinated to men through sexuality, defined broadly so as to include women and men’s practices as both desiring-ecstatic and loving-caring beings. While acknowledging that economic gender inequalities prevail in all societies, it was a point of departure of the book that inasmuch as a growing number of women are today bound to men only through the dependencies of sexuality, there is an unprecedented possibility of analytically laying bare the power mechanisms internal to our existence as sexual beings.
