Chapter 1 List of Tables and Figures Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 Introduction Chapter 5 Towards Systems Theory of Gender Chapter 6 Foundations of Gender: The Psyche, Its Structure and Function Chapter 7 Origins of Gender: Genders Apart Chapter 8 Interactions Between Genders: Genders Together Chapter 9 Gender and Dynamism of Character Chapter 10 Gender in Literature Chapter 11 Literary Characters: Psychological Realism versus Narrative Fiction Chapter 12 Cupid and Psyche : A Story of Female Initiation Chapter 13 The Birth of the Hero: Heracles and Archetypal Masculinity Chapter 14 Chrétien de Troyes' Erec and Enide : In Search of Gender Harmony in Marriage Chapter 15 Untying the Knot: Inversions of Gender in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Chapter 16 The Masculine in Macbeth Chapter 17 "A Delicate Bubble of Fancy:" Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest Chapter 18 Leopold Bloom: The Modern Androgynous Anti-Hero Chapter 19 The Nature of Transsexualism in I.B. Singer's Yentl the Yeshiva Boy Chapter 20 Bibliography Chapter 21 Index Chapter 22 Author Biographical Sketch.