Harmless Lovers examines the connections between gender theory and lived gender relationships of some of the key social theorists - including Wollestonecratf, Enfantin, Comte, Marx, Engels, Mill, Nietzsche, Durkheim and Weber.

Mike Gane is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Loughborough University.

Introduction; Part I The crisis; Chapter 1 Emile Durkheim; Chapter 2 Mary Wollstonecraft; Chapter 3 Karl Marx; Part II Ecstasies of the new man; Chapter 4 In feeling; Chapter 5 In sexuality; Chapter 6 In worship; Chapter 7 In liberty; Chapter 8 In communism; Chapter 9 In fate; Chapter 10 In transcendence; Part III Images and mirrors; Chapter 11 Towards postmodernism; Chapter 12 Conclusion;