Gender reversals and gender cultures : anthropological and historical perspectives

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Notes on contributors = ⅸ
• Preface = xii
• 1 GENDER REVERSALS AND GENDER CULTURES : An Introduction / Sabrina Petra Ramet = 1
• 2 TRAVERSING GENDER : Cultural context and gender practices / Anne Bolin = 22
• 3 SUMER : Gender, gender roles, gender role reversals / Judith Ochshorn = 52
• 4 CROSS-DRESSING AND CROSS-PURPOSES : Gender possibilities in the Acts of Thecla / J. L. Welch = 66
• 5 MARTYRS, ASCETICS, AND GNOSTICS : Gender-crossing in early Christianity / Karen Jo Torjesen = 79
• 6 CROSS-DRESSING, GENDER ERRORS, AND SEXUAL TABOOS IN RENAISSANCE LITERATURE / Winfried Schleiner = 92
• 7 ELENA ALIAS ELENO : Genders, sexualities, and "race" in the mirror of natural history in sixteenth-century Spain / Israel Burshatin = 105
• 8 BECOMING MALE : Salvation through gender modification in Hinduism and Buddhism / Cynthia Ann Humes = 123
• 9 GENDER, POWER, AND SPECTACLE IN LATE-IMPERIAL CHINESS THEATER / Sophie Volpp = 138
• 10 EROTICISM, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER REVERSAL IN HUNGARIAN CULTURE / L$$\acute a$$szl$$\acute o$$ K$$\ddot u$$rti = 148
• 11 SACRED GENDERS IN SIBERIA : Shamans, bear festivals, and androgyny / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer = 164
• 12 THERE IS MORE THAN JUST WOMEN AND MEN : Gender variance in North American Indian cultures / Sabine Lang = 183
• 13 THE PROCREATIVE AND RITUAL CONSTITUTION OF FEMALE, MALE, AND OTHER : Androgynous beings in the cultural imagination of the Bimin-Kuskusmin of Papua New Guinea / Fitz John Porter Poole = 197
• Index = 219