Changing Sex and Bending Gender (eBook)
158 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-885-8 (ISBN)
Alison Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Department of Public Health. Her research interests include medical anthropology, ethnicity, kinship and social aspects of genetics. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani families in Britain (Harwood/Routledge 2000); A Pakistani Community in Britain (Oxford: Blackwell 1888) and Get by in Hindi and Urdu (1989 BBC Books).
Shirley Ardener is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, the University of Oxford's International Development Centre. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now known as the International Gender Studies Centre, whose programme was recognised by her OBE, and of which she is an active honorary member. She has edited and contributed to many books on gender and is the editor of Berghahn's series Cameroon Studies.
List of illustrations
Preface
Shirley Ardener
Chapter 1. Changing sex and bending gender: an introduction
Alison Shaw
Defining sex and gender
Changing bodily sex
Long-term gender transformations
Women in transformed gender roles
Women disguised as men
Women with ‘manly’ attributes, and the issue of sexuality
Men in transformed gender roles
Temporary gender transformations
Women playing men on the stage
Men playing women on the stage
Conclusion
Chapter 2. Is it a boy, or a girl? The challenges of genital ambiguity
Alison Shaw
Intersex conditions
Reactions to intersex births
Botched pots, unnatural horrors and supernatural blessings
‘Correcting’ intersex infants
Lessons from the Dominican Republic
Conclusions and implications
Chapter 3. Why should biological sex be decisive? Transsexualism before the European Court of Human Rights
Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
The Convention
The cases
Typical facts
The Court’s reasoning in transsexual cases
Judge Martens’ critique of ‘Biological Sex is Decisive’
A false positive
The denial of legal fatherhood
A tightening majority
Victory at last
The ‘normalisation’ of transsexual human rights issues
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Two views on the gender identity of Byzantine eunuchs
Shaun Tougher
Eunuchs
Eunuchs in Byzantium
The Image of eunuchs
The texts: Claudian and Theophylact
The negative view: Claudian’s In Eutropium (I and II)
The positive answer: Theophylact’s In Defence of Eunuchs
A comparison
Conclusion
Chapter 5. The third sex in Albania: an ethnographic note
Roland Littlewood and Antonia Young
The historical setting
‘A woman is a sack made to endure’: gender and the customary law
Sworn virgins
Three into two
Chapter 6. Living like men, loving like women: tomboi in the Southern Philippines
Mark Johnson
The locality
Ethnographic encounters with tomboi in the Southern Philippines
Living ‘like men’
Loving ‘like women’
‘Women who do bad things’: hegemonic masculinity and compulsory heterogender/sexuality
The question of tomboi likeness and being
Chapter 7. One of the gals who’s one of the guys: men, masculinity and drag performance in North America
Fiona Moore
Drag as an expression of masculinity
Dragged up on deck: the setting
More man than you’ll ever be: drag as gay male art form
Rocky Horror? Straight men and drag
Passing women: the views of performers
Masculinity, sexuality and liminality: discussion and conclusion
Chapter 8. Male dames and female boys: cross-dressing in the English pantomime
Shirley Ardener
English vulgar comedy
A potted history of pantomime
Story lines
Dames
Dress and make-up
Women, drag and female impersonators
Principal Boys
Commentary
Chapter 9. Cross-dressing on the Japanese stage
Brian Powell
Female actors
Male actors
Two contrasting onnagata
Takarazuka
Emergence of the actress in Japanese theatre culture
Change and changelessness
Notes on contributors
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2005 |
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Reihe/Serie | Social Identities | Social Identities |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | Gender Studies and Sexuality, Theory and Methodology • Gender Studies, Theory & • Gender Studies, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology • Methodology in Anthropology |
ISBN-10 | 0-85745-885-X / 085745885X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-85745-885-8 / 9780857458858 |
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