'This essay rejects the trope of androgyny as it has been taken up within the ambit of a specifically Western ideal of unity and resolution, one that Marjorie Garber refers to as reflecting -the androgyne as humanist hero."' Androgyny, a term which combines the Greek roots andro (male) and gyne (female), is, of course, most famously depicted in Plato's Symposium. Aristophancs explains to the assembled company that originally there were three sexes, not only two, in the form of circular beings comprising man/man, woman/woman and man/woman...' (Introduction)