Since the Second Wave emerged in the 1960s, feminism has not only proved to be a productive and enabling mode of academic discourse, introducing women`s issues and thus compelling many significant changes in what had been persistently male exclusive systems. It has also undergone self-transforming changes to cope with the new interests and challenges presented by the women who have existed off-center. "Boundary-crossing" has been, therefore, a forceful strategy while "differences" have been respectfully attended in feminist practices and theories. However, these are not always appreciated as such, for they contradict the concerns of the early feminism which is built upon the foundational claims of gender and identity. One example is the recent controversy over the so-called "death of feminism," which was provoked by Susan Gubar, prominent first-generation feminist critic who accuses feminists of postcoloniality and of poststructuralism of rendering "women" an invalid word. In this paper I examine what is at stake with that controversy and what possibilities could be drawn from it for the future of feminism. Especially, I explore the promises for feminism in engaging with queer theory which the said critic most strongly opposes. I suggest that queer theory`s interrogations of gender identity and hegemonic heterosexuality can inspire and reinforce feminism as well. Performing a reading of Oscar Wilde`s play from the perspectives of both feminism and queer theory, I propose "queer feminism," an alliance mode of the two critical practices, by which to work out the current contention in the field and to effect rearticulations in more enabling ways for those who have been abjected, excluded, or marginalized by normative regimes of the Name/Law of the Father.