ABSTRACT
The definitions, boundaries and constituents signified by the terms “gender” and “esotericism” are necessarily troubling and dynamic. As is evidenced throughout this volume, the academic study of esotericism has included rigorous and ongoing debates about the field and its “objects” of study. Similarly – but with amplification – the academic study of gender is an ever-expanding labyrinth of contested definitions, discourses and practices. To draw these two lively areas together can only create more trouble; trouble for conceptual categories, for binary logics, and for dominant discursive practices. Such trouble is both inspiring and imperative.
