Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality Marilyn Stratherns Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded the manuscript went into storage where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light giving the longlost feminist workaccompanied here by an afterword fro