Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures
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Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural and cross-historical look at the phenomenon of gender change. The contributors document the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity, Hindu mythology, ancient Greek rites of Dionysos to Native American traditions and Western theatre. They examine how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and how this underlies religious and ritual activity. Contributors include Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Judith Ochshorn, Winfried Schleiner, and Karen Jo Torjesen.
Notes on contributorsPreface1Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: An Introduction12Traversing Gender: Cultural context and gender practices223Sumer: Gender, gender roles, gender role reversals524Cross-Dressing and Cross-Purposes: Gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla665Martyrs, Ascetics, and Gnostics: Gender-crossing in early Christianity796Cross-Dressing, Gender Errors, and Sexual Taboos in Renaissance Literature927Elena Alias Eleno: Genders, sexualities, and "race" in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain1058Becoming Male: Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and Buddhism1239Gender, Power, and Spectacle in Late-Imperial Chinese Theater13810Eroticism, Sexuality, and Gender Reversal in Hungarian Culture14811Sacred Genders in Siberia: Shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny16412There is More Than Just Women and Men: Gender variance in North American Indian cultures18313The Procreative and Ritual Constitution of Female, Male, and Other: Androgynous beings in the cultural imagination of the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea197Index219
