03397nam 2200769Ia 450 991080729740332120200520144314.01-134-82211-10-203-29571-41-280-32061-31-134-82212-X0-203-42893-510.4324/9780203428931(CKB)1000000000250196(EBL)166807(OCoLC)63262828(SSID)ssj0000161165(PQKBManifestationID)11160588(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161165(PQKBWorkID)10190621(PQKB)11512208(MiAaPQ)EBC166807(Au-PeEL)EBL166807(CaPaEBR)ebr10062922(CaONFJC)MIL32061(OCoLC)560372729(OCoLC)52280396(EXLCZ)99100000000025019619951027d1996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender reversals and gender cultures anthropological and historical perspectives /edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19961 online resource (246 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-11483-7 0-415-11482-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; GENDER REVERSALS AND GENDER CULTURES An Introduction; TRAVERSING GENDER Cultural context and gender practices; SUMER Gender, gender roles, gender role reversals; CROSS-DRESSING AND CROSS-PURPOSES Gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla; MARTYRS, ASCETICS, AND GNOSTICS Gender-crossing in early Christianity; CROSS-DRESSING, GENDER ERRORS, AND SEXUAL TABOOS IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE; ELENA ALIAS ELENO Genders, sexualities, and ~race~ in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century SpainBECOMING MALE Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and BuddhismGENDER, POWER, AND SPECTACLE IN LATE-IMPERIAL CHINESE THEATER; EROTICISM, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER REVERSAL IN HUNGARIAN CULTURE; SACRED GENDERS IN SIBERIA Shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny; THERE IS MORE THAN JUST WOMEN AND MEN Gender variance in North American Indian cultures; THE PROCREATIVE AND RITUAL CONSTITUTION OF FEMALE, MALE, AND OTHER Androgynous beings in the culThis 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.Gender reversals & gender culturesSex roleGender identityTransvestismTranssexualismTabooAndrogyny (Psychology)Sex role.Gender identity.Transvestism.Transsexualism.Taboo.Androgyny (Psychology)305.3Ramet Sabrina P.1949-472014MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807297403321Gender reversals and gender cultures4123607UNINA