sex, cross-dressing and culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Suthrell, Charlotte
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6145 - B
- Thesaurus
- travestie, seksuele ambivalentie, identiteit, sekse, gender, theorieën, kleding, India, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- Drawing on primary fieldwork, this work offers a cross-cultural study of transvestitism through an examination of transvestites in Britain and the Hijras of India. The author tackles questions like: Is transvestitism motivated primarily by sex or gender? How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West often seen as 'deviant' or 'perverse,' while they are accepted in other societies? What are the implications for the categories of 'male' and 'female' when considering transvestism? She also pays attention to the importance of dress and the artefactual nature of the construction of the self through clothing.