Changing Sex and Bending Gender

Name: Changing Sex and Bending Gender
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ISBN: 9781845450991

ISBN-10: 184545099X

ISBN-13: 9781845450991

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alison Shaw, Shirley Ardener

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Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerful and compelling illustrations of how, across a wide range of cultures, processes of gender transformation are shaped within, and ultimately constrained by, social and political context. From medical responses to biological ambiguity, legal responses to cases brought by transsexuals, the historical role of the eunuch in Byzantium, the social transformation of gender in Northern Albania and in the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 158
Size: 5.96" wide x 8.95" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Alison Shaw is Professor of Social Anthropology in the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on ethnicity and health; social aspects of genetics; kinship, gender and transnational marriages. Her publications include Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain (2000) and Negotiating Risk: British Pakistani Experiences of Genetics (2009).