This book is a collection of landmark contributions to gender theory from a feminist and postmodern perspective. Its goal is to integrate the clinical psychoanalytic perspective. The state of the field is established in the opening section entitled “Gender Deconstructing,” containing essays by Judith Butler, Ken Corbett, Muriel Dimen, Virginia Goldner, and Adrienne Harris.

Here we have Butler's lost homoerotic love object of childhood that infuses heterosexuality with a pervasive melancholy and Corbett's encouragement of us to open up the categories of gender