Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

By Sim Kern

Book Overview

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.

• 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.