It has been nearly fifteen years since Craig Owens wondered at "[t]he absence of discussions of sexual difference in writings about postmodernism."1 In that time, a significant body of theoretical writing about gender and postmodernism has appeared; I would cite work by Diane Elam, bell hooks, Linda Hutcheon, Biddy Martin, Chantal Mouffe, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Patricia Waugh, and the contributors to Linda J. Nicholson's very useful collection Feminism/Postmodernism.2 Yet for all this theorizing across various disciplines, there is still surprisingly little in the way of sustained "discussions of sexual difference in writings about" postmodernist fiction. The quick lists critics often use to sketch the field of postmodernist writing still tend to include the same seven or eight men-with, perhaps, the addition of Kathy Acker.3 Only a handful of book-length studies of postmodernist fiction devote a significant amount of space to fiction written by women.