Unzipping Gender: Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture

by Charlotte Suthrell

Book Overview

How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse, while they are accepted in other societies? What are the implications for the categories of male and female when considering transvestism?

Transvestism, and its cultural practice, is a useful lens through which we can view and thus debate models of sex, gender and sexuality. Drawing on primary fieldwork, Unzipping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859737250
• ISBN13: 9781859737255
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"