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 a (TM)gendera (TM) 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