The insistence on gender studies in the recent feminist criticism has opened the door to male voice as a component of a gendered discourse that includes woman and the dominant cultural ideology. Alongside the flexibility in the feminist in the enterprise which is tolerable of a discipline in “an ever-present relation of contiguity with the originating politics of feminism,” male feminists in gender studies have ceased to be looked upon as appropriate “cross-dressers” (Boon and Cadden1990:23).