Gender reversals and gender cultures: anthropological and historical perspectives
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 1996
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Item Description:Paralleltitel: Gender reversals & gender cultures
Includes bibliographical references and index
Gender reversals and gender cultures : an introduction / Sabrina Petra Ramet -- Traversing gender : cultural context and gender practices / Anne Bolin -- Sumer : gender, gender roles, gender role reversals / Judith Ochshorn -- Cross-dressing and cross-purposes : gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla / J.L. Welch -- Martyrs, ascetics, and gnostics : gender-crossing in early Christianity / Karen Jo Torjesen -- Cross-dressing, gender errors, and sexual taboos in Renaissance literature / Winfried Schleiner -- Elena Alias Eleno : genders, sexualities, and "race" in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain / Israel Burshatin -- Becoming male : salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and Buddhism / Cynthia Ann Humes -- Gender, power, and spectacle in late-imperial Chinese theater / Sophie Volpp -- Eroticism, sexuality, and gender reversal in Hungarian culture / Lásló Kürti -- Sacred genders in Siberia : shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- There is more than just women and men : gender variance in North American Indian cultures / Sabine Lang -- The procreative and ritual constitution of female, male and other androgynous beings in the cultural imagination of the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea / Fitz John Porter Poole
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 pages)
ISBN:0203295714
0203428935
0415114829
0415114837
9780203295717
9780203428931
9780415114820
9780415114837

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