Gender Diversity: Crosscultural VariationsHow 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. |
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... Hindu India is mainly set within a religious context . Unlike North America , however , gender diversity in India is set within a basically binary sex / gender sys- tem that is hierarchical and patriarchal rather than one that is ...
... Hindu India is mainly set within a religious context . Unlike North America , however , gender diversity in India is set within a basically binary sex / gender sys- tem that is hierarchical and patriarchal rather than one that is ...
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... Hindu religious concepts ( Nanda 1999 ) . In Hinduism , in spite of the importance of the basic complementary opposition of male and female , many sex / gender variants and transformations are also acknowledged . Unlike Western cultures ...
... Hindu religious concepts ( Nanda 1999 ) . In Hinduism , in spite of the importance of the basic complementary opposition of male and female , many sex / gender variants and transformations are also acknowledged . Unlike Western cultures ...
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... Hindu epic , the Mahabharata . In one episode Arjun is exiled and lives for a year in the disguise of a eunuch - transvestite , wearing women's dress and bracelets , braiding his hair like a woman , and teach- ing singing and dancing to ...
... Hindu epic , the Mahabharata . In one episode Arjun is exiled and lives for a year in the disguise of a eunuch - transvestite , wearing women's dress and bracelets , braiding his hair like a woman , and teach- ing singing and dancing to ...
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Sexuality and Gender Diversity | 5 |
SexGender Diversity | 8 |
Multiple Genders among | 11 |
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