Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations

Etukansi
Waveland Press, 6.10.1999 - 127 sivua

How can we gain new understandings about sex, gender, and sexuality? What are the relationships between culture and gender diversity? How has the diffusion of Euro-American culture affected the sex/gender ideologies of non-European cultures? This eye-opening account of the differences in how sex/gender diversity is experienced in seven cultures raises our consciousness and challenges our intellectual understandings and attitudes about what we consider natural, normal, and morally right. Nandas examples, which reveal the complexity of social responses toward sex/gender diversity, are ethnographically well documented and represent various geographical areas and sex/gender ideologies. In classic anthropological fashion, Nandas text enables us to cross the barriers of cultural difference to a recognition of a greater shared humanity.

 

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Introduction
1
Multiple Genders among North American Indians
11
Hijra and Sadhin Neither Man nor Woman in India
27
Men and NotMen Sexuality and Gender in Brazil
43
Liminal Gender Roles in Polynesia
57
Transgendered Males in Thailand and the Philippines
71
SexGender Diversity in EuroAmerican Cultures
87
Variations on a Theme
101
Glossary
107
References
109
Selected Films
117
Index
119
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