Gender reversals and gender cultures
- Creator
- Ramet, Sabrina Petra > (ed.)
Gender reversals and gender cultures
Essays over de antropologische en historische aspecten van sekse-omkering en het overschrijden van sociale geslachtsrollen in verschillende culturen in heden en verleden. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Traversing gender: cultural context and gender practices / door Anne Bolin: Sumer : gender, gender roles, gender role reversals / door Judith Ochshorn: Cross-dressing and cross-purposes: gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla / door J.L. Welch: Martyrs, ascetics, and gnostics: gender-crossing in early christianity / door Karen Jo Torjesen: Cross-dressing, gender errors, and sexual taboos in Renaissance literature / door Winfried Schleiner: Elena alias Eleno: genders, sexualities, and 'race' in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain / door Israel Burshatin: Becoming male: salvation through gender modification in hinduism and buddhism / door Cynthia Ann Humes: Gender, power, and spectacle in late-imperial Chinese theater / door Sophie Volpp: Eroticism, sexuality, and gender reversal in Hungarian culture / door László Kürti: Sacred genders in Siberia: shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / door Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer: There is more than just women and men: gender variance in North American Indian cultures / door 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 / door Fitz John Porter Poole.
- Creator
- Ramet, Sabrina Petra > (ed.)