ABSTRACT
In thinking about gender issues, Heather Love (2004: 259) suggests that queer studies seems to have ‘reached an internal limit as it has confronted the new field of trans studies.’ Love further notes that what her students are now really interested in is not the complexity of sexuality but the difficulties of gender, a shift that Love sees taking place in queer studies as a result of an explosion of fascinating new work by transgender and transsexual critics (e.g. Bornstein, 1994; Califia, 1997; Cromwell, 1999; Feinberg, 1998; Green, 2004; Halberstam, 1998; 2005; Hale, 1998; Prosser, 1998; Stone, 1991; Stryker and Whittle, 2006; Wilchins, 1997).
