Gender reversals and gender cultures : anthropological and historical perspectives / / edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.3
• Soggetto topico: Sex role; Gender identity; Cross-dressing; Transsexualism; Taboo; Androgyny (Psychology)
• Altri autori: RametSabrina P. <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Spain ; BECOMING 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 cul
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Gender reversals & gender cultures
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender reversals and gender cultures
• ISBN: 1-134-82211-1; 0-203-29571-4; 1-280-32061-3; 1-134-82212-X; 0-203-42893-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783707903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II