ABSTRACT
Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) has defined a field. Indeed, it has defined several fields, several interrelated but only recently articulated areas of inquiry. First and foremost, Gender Trouble is a work of feminist theory. In the case of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's equally iconoclastic Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985), feminist theory and literary criticism have gone forth and multiplied, birthing gender studies and queer theory. The question remains whether this transformation has diversified and enriched or diluted feminist concerns in favor of a male-centered hegemony.
