AHMED, SARA (1998), Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press.  This text, using close readings of postmodern constructions of rights, ethics, woman, subjectivity, authorship and film, challenges theories that tend to locate “feminism” as either modern or postmodern and argues instead that it must itself ask questions of postmodernism. (For more information click on the provided link)

AIKEN, LEWIS (1999), Human Differences, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  This text presents ways of understanding and dealing with individual and group variations among people and the problems and conflicts arising from them relative to physical, social, and cognitive characteristics. (For more information click on the provided link)

FENSTERMAKER, SARAH & WEST, CANDACE (eds.) (2002), Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Social Inequality, Power and Resistance, Routledge.  A collection of essays showing the historical development of the ways the social construction of gender and other inequalities have been theorized. (For more information click on the provided link)

IRIGARAY, LUCE (1992), Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference (translated Alison Martin), Routledge.  The author focuses on power, women, gender and patriarchal mythologies, to lays out the premises for exploring issues of womanhood in the modern world. (For more information click on the provided link)

JOHNSON, ALLAN (1997), The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchical Legacy, Temple University Press.  The author deals with the oppressive gender legacy called “patriarchy” giving rise to fear, anger, blame, defensiveness, guilt, pain, denial, ambivalence, and confusion. (For more information click on the provided link)

SALECL, RENATA (ed.) (2000), Sexuation (SIC 3), Duke University Press.  Moving away from discourses that describe sexual identity as either socially constructed and enacted or that there is an underlying, deeply anchored archetypal identity that provides a kind of safe haven in the contemporary confusion of roles and identities the contributors discuss sexual difference with Lacan as a deadlock inherent in the symbolic order. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1993), Freud, Race, and Gender, Princeton:  Princeton University Press.  The author argues that Freud's internalizing of images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis and in examining a variety of scientific writings, discusses the prevailing belief that male Jews were feminized. (For more information click on the provided link)

WOODWARD, KATHERINE (ed.) (1997), Identity and Difference, Sage / The Open University.  This broad-ranging book examines the challenge of debates over identity crisis, politics, national identities, diaspora and sexual by mapping how identity and difference have been the focus of key debates in cultural studies, and outlines their applications to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, race and nation. (For more information click on the provided link)

ZAJAC, MARTA (2003), The Feminine of Difference: Gilles Deleuze, Helene Cixous, and Contemporary Critique of the Marquis De Sade, Peter Lang Publishing.  This text maps the shift from the Platonic notion of difference to Deleuze's notion of pure difference and its relevance for gender studies to conceptualize the key relations of mind-body and man-woman. (For more information click on the provided link)