- Updated to consider recent scholarship in Gender, Multicultural, Postcolonial, Disability, Native American, and Queer Studies, among other fields of study

- Revised to include an extended analysis of the conceptual errors that legitimate domination, including the construction of kinds ("genders") of human beings

- Revised to include new materials from a variety of cultures and times, and engages with today's contemporary debates about affirmative action, postmodernism, and religion