| Description |
xiii, 231 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: An Introduction / Sabrina Petra Ramet -- 2. Traversing Gender: Cultural context and gender practices / Anne Bolin -- 3. Sumer: Gender, gender roles, gender role reversals / Judith Ochshorn -- 4. Cross-Dressing and Cross-Purposes: Gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla / J. L. Welch -- 5. Martyrs, Ascetics, and Gnostics: Gender-crossing in early Christianity / Karen Jo Torjesen -- 6. Cross-Dressing, Gender Errors, and Sexual Taboos in Renaissance Literature / Winfried Schleiner -- 7. Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, sexualities, and "race" in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain / Israel Burshatin -- 8. Becoming Male: Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and Buddhism / Cynthia Ann Humes -- 9. Gender, Power, and Spectacle in Late-Imperial Chinese Theater / Sophie Volpp -- 10. Eroticism, Sexuality, and Gender Reversal in Hungarian Culture / Laszlo Kurti |
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11. Sacred Genders in Siberia: Shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- 12. There is More Than Just Women and Men: Gender variance in North American Indian cultures / Sabine Lang -- 13. The Procreative and Ritual Constitution of Female, Male, and Other: Androgynous beings in the cultural imagination of the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea / Fitz John Porter Poole |
| Summary |
The original essays in Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures explore the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. The contributors bring a unique mixture of perspectives to bear on the subject, with backgrounds in anthropology, history, literature, political science, comparative religion and women's studies. They reveal the complex relation of gender reversal to taboo, and show how differing attitudes reveal much about particular cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Androgyny (Psychology)
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Cross-dressing.
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Gender identity.
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Gender nonconformity.
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Gender transition.
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Sex role.
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Taboo.
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Transsexualism.
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Transitioning (Gender)
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| Author |
Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-
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| LC no. |
95026198 |
| ISBN |
0415114829 (hbk.) |
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0415114837 (paperback) |
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