Gender reversals and gender cultures : anthropological and historical perspectives / edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Gender identity.

Cross-dressing.

Transness.

Taboo.

Androgyny (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Gender reversals & gender cultures

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; GENDER REVERSALS AND GENDER CULTURES An Introduction; TRAVERSING GENDER Cultural context and gender practices; SUMER Gender, gender roles, gender role reversals; CROSS-DRESSING AND CROSS-PURPOSES Gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla; MARTYRS, ASCETICS, AND GNOSTICS Gender-crossing in early Christianity; CROSS-DRESSING, GENDER ERRORS, AND SEXUAL TABOOS IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE; ELENA ALIAS ELENO Genders, sexualities, and ~race~ in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain

BECOMING MALE Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and BuddhismGENDER, POWER, AND SPECTACLE IN LATE-IMPERIAL CHINESE THEATER; EROTICISM, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER REVERSAL IN HUNGARIAN CULTURE; SACRED GENDERS IN SIBERIA Shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny; THERE IS MORE THAN JUST WOMEN AND MEN Gender variance in North American Indian cultures; THE PROCREATIVE AND RITUAL CONSTITUTION OF FEMALE, MALE, AND OTHER Androgynous beings in the cul

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-82211-1

0-203-29571-4

1-280-32061-3

1-134-82212-X

0-203-42893-5

9780203428931

OCLC:

63262828