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Title:

Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history / edited by Gilbert Herdt.

Publisher:

Zone Books,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sex role--History.
Sexual orientation--History.
Gender identity--History.
Sexual deviation--History.
Hermaphroditism--History.
Paraphilias--history.
Hermaphroditism--History.
Hermafroditismo--Historia
Rôle selon le sexe--Histoire.
Orientation sexuelle--Histoire.
Identité sexuelle--Histoire.
Perversion sexuelle--Histoire.
Hermaphrodisme--Histoire.
History--History

Other Authors:

Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-596) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: third sexes and third genders / Gilbert Herdt -- Living in the shadows : eunuchs and gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- London's Sapphists : from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture / Randolph Trumbach -- Sodomy and the pursuit of a third sex in the early modern period / Theo van der Meer -- "A female soul in a male body" : sexual inversion as gender inversion in nineteenth-century sexology / Gert Hekma -- Woman becomes man in the Balkans / René Grémaux -- Polynesian gender liminality through time and space / Niko Besnier -- How to become a berdache : toward a unifed analysis of gender diversity / Will Roscoe -- Hijras : an alternative sex and gender role in India / Serena Nanda -- Mistaken sex : culture, biology and the third sex in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt -- Transcending and transgendering : male-to-female transsexuals, dichotomy and diversity / Anne Bolin.

ISBN:

9780942299816
0942299817

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28222602

LCCN:

93002276

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)