This text comprises a collection of commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural and cross-historical perspective on the subject. It documents the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity up to the present. It examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how this underlies various religious and ritual activities. The book also shows how attitudes to gender reversal can reveal much about a particular culture.
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Ramet's volume succeeds in achieving its aim--exploring the cultural diversity of gender reversals over time. The book itself is well organized and would provide a very useful teaching tool for gender/cultural studies.lo Lesley J. Gotlib, M.A..
[Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures] demonstrates...that one can write about trendy topics for which there is a wealth of theoretical jargon available in clear and vivid language.
–Journal of Social History
A welcome addition to research in the fast-growing field of comparative gender studies...no other work includes so many different national perspectives.
–Gary Kates, University of Texas
[Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures] demonstrates...that one can write about trendy topics for which there is a wealth of theoretical jargon available in clear and vivid language.
–Journal of Social History
A welcome addition to research in the fast-growing field of comparative gender studies...no other work includes so many different national perspectives.
–Gary Kates, University of Texas
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Sabrina Petra Ramet is Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington.
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This review is from: Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives (Paperback)
One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is: "Traversing Gender: Cultural Context and Gender Practices," by Anne Bolin. Bolin offers her "five-form model of gender-variance." The importance of her examination of the ethnographic record and development of a five-form model of gender variance cannot be overestimated.Ramet has drawn together a very worthy collection of scholarly articles that truly turn the two-sex, two-gender mind set into child's play. Here is an exceptional collection of multi-cultural, multi-topical well considered and written views of the glorious range of reversals of gender expression in thought, theatre, culture, mythology, rites, and ceremony. This text could be offered in a wide range of scholarly courses in gender, women's, feminist, transgender, cultural, and religious studies; anthropology, history, cultural criticism, and even, political science. An enjoyable read.
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The ancient Greeks told of a certain Teiresias, a legendary blind seer, born a man, who was miraculously transformed into a woman, returning to his male form only after having lived eight years as a woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nadle pretenders, ancestral underworld, gender variance, transgender nation, bear ceremonies, bear festival, transgendered community, androgynous images, gender paradigm, institutionalized homosexuality, gender role reversals, gender crossing, soft men, gender reversal, gender blending, gender transformation, gendered imagery, male shamans, multiple genders, third gender, becoming male Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North American, Native American, Acts of Paul, New Guinea, Acts of Thecla, Cambridge University Press, Gilbert Herdt, University of California Press, American Anthropologist, Fitz John, Canonical Lamentations, The Male Queen, Anne Bolin, Harriet Whitehead, New Haven, Will Roscoe, Yale University Press, Beacon Press, Classical Hinduism, Cross Dressing, Evelyn Blackwood, Indiana University Press, Michel Foucault, Sabine Lang New!
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The ancient Greeks told of a certain Teiresias, a legendary blind seer, born a man, who was miraculously transformed into a woman, returning to his male form only after having lived eight years as a woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nadle pretenders, ancestral underworld, gender variance, transgender nation, bear ceremonies, bear festival, transgendered community, androgynous images, gender paradigm, institutionalized homosexuality, gender role reversals, gender crossing, soft men, gender reversal, gender blending, gender transformation, gendered imagery, male shamans, multiple genders, third gender, becoming male Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, North American, Native American, Acts of Paul, New Guinea, Acts of Thecla, Cambridge University Press, Gilbert Herdt, University of California Press, American Anthropologist, Fitz John, Canonical Lamentations, The Male Queen, Anne Bolin, Harriet Whitehead, New Haven, Will Roscoe, Yale University Press, Beacon Press, Classical Hinduism, Cross Dressing, Evelyn Blackwood, Indiana University Press, Michel Foucault, Sabine Lang New!
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