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

Contributor(s): Herdt, Gilbert, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Zone Books, 1994Description: 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0942299817Subject(s): Intersexuality | Paraphilias | Sex role | Sexual orientation | Gender identityDDC classification: 305

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.

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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.

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