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This book was originally published in 1995, under the same title as above. Marie Maguire has written a completely revised edition in 2004 updating her critique on masculinity and femininity asserting that cultural idealization of men remains intact and that this is replicated in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The topics covered in the book focus on a contemporary psychoanalytic take on male and female power relations and sexuality, and this version includes more material on areas under-represented in psychoanalysis, e.g. racism in psychoanalytic theory, where she uses material from a number of sources, including the paper by US academic Jean Walton (1995) ‘Replacing race in [white] psychoanalytic discourse: founding narratives of feminism’ where she is critical of Joan Riviere's classic paper on ‘Womanliness as a masquerade’ (Riviere 1929). Walton argues that ‘throughout the decades psychoanalysts have consistently used white European subjectivity to represent all female identity’ (Maguire, p. 34), and further that Riviere does not comment at all on her patients' racialized fantasies. Importantly, Maguire explores the territory of racialization and racism in psychoanalysis, just as she continues to examine sexual power relations between men and women giving some very useful clinical material to demonstrate her case psychotherapeutically. Class, the Cinderella subject of psychoanalysis, is also given more space in this revised version inquiring into racist, sexist and classist methods of thinking between men and women and in psychoanalysis. In Chapter 4 she updates and presents clinical material to demonstrate the relevance of combining those issues with interrogation of power relations and how they are ‘structured into the male psyche’ (p. 12).