Title Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history / edited by Gilbert Herdt

Published New York : Zone Books, 1994 New York : Zone Books, [1993] ©1993

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Description 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction: third sexes and third genders / Gilbert Herdt -- Living in the shadows : eunuchs and gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- London's Sapphists : from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture / Randolph Trumbach -- Sodomy and the pursuit of a third sex in the early modern period / Theo van der Meer -- "A female soul in a male body" : sexual inversion as gender inversion in nineteenth-century sexology / Gert Hekma -- Woman becomes man in the Balkans / René Grémaux -- Polynesian gender liminality through time and space / Niko Besnier -- How to become a berdache : toward a unifed analysis of gender diversity / Will Roscoe -- Hijras : an alternative sex and gender role in India / Serena Nanda -- Mistaken sex : culture, biology and the third sex in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt -- Transcending and transgendering : male-to-female transsexuals, dichotomy and diversity / Anne Bolin Analysis Sexuality History Sexuality History Notes 1st paperback edition published 1996 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-596) and index Subject Gender identity -- History. Intersexuality -- History. Sex role -- History. Paraphilias -- History. Sexual orientation -- History. Paraphilic Disorders -- history. Disorders of Sex Development -- history. Author Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949- LC no. 93002276 ISBN 0942299817

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