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Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history
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Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history

Author: Gilbert H Herdt
Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1994.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gilbert H Herdt
ISBN: 0942299817 9780942299816
OCLC Number: 28222602
Description: 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Gilbert Herdt.

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