Gender reversals and gender cultures : anthropological and historical perspectives / / edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet
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| Titolo: |
Gender reversals and gender cultures : anthropological and historical perspectives / / edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex role |
| Gender identity | |
| Transvestism | |
| Transsexualism | |
| Taboo | |
| Androgyny (Psychology) | |
| Altri autori: |
RametSabrina P. <1949->
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| 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.: | 9910807297403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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