Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

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Summary: A Transgender Studies Must-Read
Review: One of the most important contributions to this multi-cultural anthropological anthology is: "Traversing Gender: Cultural Context and Gender Practices," by Anne Bolin. Bolin offers her "five-form model of gender-variance." The importance of her examination of the ethnographic record and development of a five-form model of gender variance cannot be overestimated.

Ramet has drawn together a very worthy collection of scholarly articles that truly turn the two-sex, two-gender mind set into child's play. Here is an exceptional collection of multi-cultural, multi-topical well considered and written views of the glorious range of reversals of gender expression in thought, theatre, culture, mythology, rites, and ceremony.

This text could be offered in a wide range of scholarly courses in gender, women's, feminist, transgender, cultural, and religious studies; anthropology, history, cultural criticism, and even, political science. An enjoyable read.