The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural
studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes
lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover
and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to gender and its
implications, including:

* an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from
their historical inception to contemporary debates
* discussions of the major theorists in the field
* updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory
* a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender
in contemporary theory.

With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only
a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing
presence in literary and cultural theory and the new directions it is taking.

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