"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.…mehr
"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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sabrina Petra Ramet is Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of several books, including Nationalism and Federalism in Yugoslavia 1962-1991 (1992) and Social Currents in Eastern Europe (1995).
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Chapter 1 Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures Sabrina Petra Ramet; Chapter 2 Traversing Gender Anne Bolin; Chapter 3 Sumer Judith Ochshorn; Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing and Cross-Purposes J.L. Welch; Chapter 5 Martyrs Ascetics and Gnostics Karen Jo Torjesen; Chapter 6 Cross-Dressing Gender Errors and Sexual Taboos in Renaissance Literature Winfried Schleiner; Chapter 7 Elena Alias Eleno Israel Burshatin; Chapter 8 Becoming Male Cynthia Ann Humes; Chapter 9 Gender Power and Spectacle in Late-Imperial Chinese Theater Sophie Volpp; Chapter 10 Eroticism Sexuality and Gender Reversal in Hungarian Culture László Kürti; Chapter 11 Sacred Genders in Siberia Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer; Chapter 12 There is More than Just Women and Men Sabine Lang; Chapter 13 The Procreative and Ritual Constitution of Female Male and Other Fitz john Porter Poole;
Chapter 1 Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures Sabrina Petra Ramet; Chapter 2 Traversing Gender Anne Bolin; Chapter 3 Sumer Judith Ochshorn; Chapter 4 Cross-Dressing and Cross-Purposes J.L. Welch; Chapter 5 Martyrs Ascetics and Gnostics Karen Jo Torjesen; Chapter 6 Cross-Dressing Gender Errors and Sexual Taboos in Renaissance Literature Winfried Schleiner; Chapter 7 Elena Alias Eleno Israel Burshatin; Chapter 8 Becoming Male Cynthia Ann Humes; Chapter 9 Gender Power and Spectacle in Late-Imperial Chinese Theater Sophie Volpp; Chapter 10 Eroticism Sexuality and Gender Reversal in Hungarian Culture László Kürti; Chapter 11 Sacred Genders in Siberia Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer; Chapter 12 There is More than Just Women and Men Sabine Lang; Chapter 13 The Procreative and Ritual Constitution of Female Male and Other Fitz john Porter Poole;
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