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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415114837
• ISBN13: 9780415114837
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 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.