Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations . In classic anthropological fashion, Nanda's text enables us to cross the barriers of cultural difference to a recognition of a greater shared humanity. Nanda's examples, which reveal the complexity of social responses toward sex/gender diversity, are ethnographically well documented and represent
| Title | : | Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (108 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1577660749 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 127 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1999-10-07 |
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How can we gain new understandings about sex, gender, and sexuality? What are the relationships between culture and gender diversity? How has the diffusion of Euro-American culture affected the sex/gender ideologies of non-European cultures? This eye-opening account of the differences in how sex/gender diversity is experienced in seven cultures raises our consciousness and challenges our intellectual understandings and attitudes about what we consider natural, normal, and morally right. Nanda's examples, which reveal the complexity of social responses toward sex/gender diversity, are ethnographically well documented and represent various geographical areas and sex/gender ideologies. In classic anthropological fashion, Nanda's text enables us to cross the barriers of cultural difference to a recognition of a greater shared humanity.
Editorial : From the Publisher Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Mascia-Lees, Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: Twenty-first-Century Anthropology (ISBN 9781577665984) and Mascia-Lees-Black, Gender and Anthropology (ISBN 9781577660668).
This further exposes the extent to which sex/gender variants challenge the binary concepts of sex, gender and sexuality in Western cultures. Came as promised to me. A gender variant is supposed to have a relationship with a person who is (biologically) of the same sex. Her descriptions of masculinity and femininity in India, Brazil, Polynesia, Thailand, the Philippines, within some Native American tribes and in contemporary Euro-American cultures challenge what some believe is "natural" about gender and, by extension, sexuality. However, this shortcoming is not Nanda's. In addition to the index by property name, there is a general index by subject matter, making it easy to find properties related by subject, regardless of location.. The last of which include the sworn virgins of Albania, which I personally had never heard of before. I have been buying a planner from Peter Pauper Press every year for quite some time now. An updated version would be quite good.
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