Changing Sex and Bending Gender /

Changing Sex and Bending Gender / / ed. by Shirley Ardener, Alison Shaw.

Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ardener, Shirley,
Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte,
Johnson, Mark,
Littlewood, Roland,
Moore, Fiona,
Powell, Brian,
Shaw, Alison,
Tougher, Shaun,
Young, Antonia,
HerausgeberIn:
Ardener, Shirley,
Shaw, Alison,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Social Identities ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (158 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • 1 CHANGING SEX AND BENDING GENDER: AN INTRODUCTION
  • 2 IS IT A BOY, OR A GIRL? THE CHALLENGES OF GENITAL AMBIGUITY
  • 3 WHY SHOULD BIOLOGICAL SEX BE DECISIVE? TRANSSEXUALISM BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
  • 4 TWO VIEWS ON THE GENDER IDENTITY OF BYZANTINE EUNUCHS
  • 5 THE THIRD SEX IN ALBANIA: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTE
  • 6 LIVING LIKE MEN, LOVING LIKE WOMEN: TOMBOI IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
  • 7 ONE OF THE GALS WHO’S ONE OF THE GUYS: MEN, MASCULINITY AND DRAG PERFORMANCE IN NORTH AMERICA
  • 8 MALE DAMES AND FEMALE BOYS: CROSS-DRESSING IN THE ENGLISH PANTOMIME
  • 9 CROSS-DRESSING ON THE JAPANESE STAGE
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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