We are pleased to enter into an animated exchange of ideas with you in this way and look forward to suggestions, criticisms, comments and continuing questions.

At a time when the utopian talk of a disintegration of gender identities dominates and the category of femininity therefore seems uncertain, cross female asks whether a displacement within the polar structure of gender relationship actually accompanies it. Do the handed-down metaphors dissolve or do they simply appear in a new guise?