Source:
Zone Books, New York, p.614 (1993)
Abstract:
In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, as a means of critiquing thinking that privileges standard male/female gender distinctions and rejects the natural basis of other forms of sexuality.
Notes:
This is a collection of essays on anthropological and historical accounts of so-called "third gender" people and communities around the world, and should therefore be looked at critically because of its usage of Western gender constructions ("third gender" and "transgender") and its accompanying ethnocentric assumptions.
