UID:
almafu_9959239521702883
Format:
1 online resource (246 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-82211-1
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0-203-29571-4
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1-280-32061-3
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1-134-82212-X
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0-203-42893-5
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-11483-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-11482-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203428931
