Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, UK. She is the author of The Sociology of Housework, From Here to Maternity, The Captured Womb, Gender on Planet Earth and many other works, including fiction.

• List of Figures, List of Tables, Definition of Terms, Our Bodies are not ourselves, or do (Female) Monkeys Have orgasms?: Introduction to the new edition, Introduction to 1972 edition, 1. the Biology of Sex, 2. Sex and Personality, 3. Sex and intellect, 4. Sexuality, 5. Sex and Social role, 6. Sex and Gender, 7. The learning of Gender roles, 8. The Future of Sex differences, References to New Introduction, Original References and Further Reading, Index

"Sex, Gender and Society successfully challenges essentialist theories on supposedly natural distinctions between men and women and demonstrates that they are finally much more similar than different one from another. The 2015 edition of the book encourages the twenty-first-century reader to consider all the works and advancement on gender studies and biological/sociocultural research that have been conducted since the 1970s; to investigate the social evolutions (if any) of gender roles in private spheres and outdoor spaces; to propose larger discussions on the variation of the performance of gender roles according to criteria such as race or social class; finally to contemplate the idea of a multiplicity of possibilities regarding the construction of the self, if societies reconsider their limiting dual categorization of individuals, one of the purposes of queer studies."- Elise Pereira Nunes, GRAAT