Introduction.

This article focuses on the Gender on the Borderlands issue of the periodical "Frontiers," which is based on testimonies and papers from the conference by the same name held at the Saint Mary's University on July 12-14, 2001. The readings in this collection articulate the processes of recovery in its myriad meanings: The readings thematically traverse, intersect, and connect across the six sections. Section titles denote the agency and action of living gender on the borderlands and denote scholarship about that process. The essays, which focus largely on the 20th and 21st centuries articulate themes and issues set into motion centuries ago.