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Ardener, Shirley [Contributor]; Ardener, Shirley [Editor]; Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte [Contributor]; Johnson, Mark [Contributor]; Littlewood, Roland [Contributor]; Moore, Fiona [Contributor]; Powell, Brian [Contributor]; Shaw, Alison [Contributor]; Shaw, Alison [Editor]; Tougher, Shaun [Contributor]; Young, Antonia [Contributor]

Changing Sex and Bending Gender

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Changing Sex and Bending Gender
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    CONTENTS
    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
    PREFACE
    1 CHANGING SEX AND BENDING GENDER: AN INTRODUCTION
    2 IS IT A BOY, OR A GIRL? THE CHALLENGES OF GENITAL AMBIGUITY
    3 WHY SHOULD BIOLOGICAL SEX BE DECISIVE? TRANSSEXUALISM BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    4 TWO VIEWS ON THE GENDER IDENTITY OF BYZANTINE EUNUCHS
    5 THE THIRD SEX IN ALBANIA: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTE
    6 LIVING LIKE MEN, LOVING LIKE WOMEN: TOMBOI IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES
    7 ONE OF THE GALS WHO'S ONE OF THE GUYS: MEN, MASCULINITY AND DRAG PERFORMANCE IN NORTH AMERICA
    8 MALE DAMES AND FEMALE BOYS: CROSS-DRESSING IN THE ENGLISH PANTOMIME
    9 CROSS-DRESSING ON THE JAPANESE STAGE
    NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
    INDEX
  • Contributor: Ardener, Shirley [MitwirkendeR]; Ardener, Shirley [HerausgeberIn]; Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte [MitwirkendeR]; Johnson, Mark [MitwirkendeR]; Littlewood, Roland [MitwirkendeR]; Moore, Fiona [MitwirkendeR]; Powell, Brian [MitwirkendeR]; Shaw, Alison [MitwirkendeR]; Shaw, Alison [HerausgeberIn]; Tougher, Shaun [MitwirkendeR]; Young, Antonia [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2005]
  • Published in: Social Identities ; 1
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (158 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780857458858
  • ISBN: 9780857458858
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Gender identity ; Human body Social aspects ; Sex role ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerful and compelling illustrations of how, across a wide range of cultures, processes of gender transformation are shaped within, and ultimately constrained by, social and political context. From medical responses to biological ambiguity, legal responses to cases brought by transsexuals, the historical role of the eunuch in Byzantium, the social transformation of gender in Northern Albania and in the Southern Philippines, to North American 'drag' shows, English pantomime and Japanese kabuki theatre, this volume offers revealing insights into the ambiguities and limitations of gender transformation
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB