Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

by Sim Kern

Book Overview

Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject. The book documents the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity up to the present. It examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how this underlies various religious and ritual activities. Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures also shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415114837
• ISBN13: 9780415114837
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Transgender Studies Must-Read

One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is: "Traversing Gender: Cultural Context and Gender Practices," by Anne Bolin. Bolin offers her "five-form model of gender-variance." The importance of her examination of the ethnographic record and development of a five-form model of gender variance cannot be overestimated.Ramet has drawn together a very worthy collection of scholarly articles that truly turn the two-sex, two-gender mind set into child's play. Here is an exceptional collection of multi-cultural, multi-topical well considered and written views of the glorious range of reversals of gender expression in thought, theatre, culture, mythology, rites, and ceremony.This text could be offered in a wide range of scholarly courses in gender, women's, feminist, transgender, cultural, and religious studies; anthropology, history, cultural criticism, and even, political science. An enjoyable read.