Unzipping gender sex, cross-dressing and culture
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- ISBN: 9781847888952 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 220 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2004.
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General Note: | Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface 1 Introduction 2 Clothing Sex, Sexing Clothes: Transvestism, Material Culture and the Sex and Gender Debate 3 Transvestites in the UK: the Dream of Fair Women 4 Disorder Within the Pattern: the Hijras of India 5 Crossing Gender Boundaries in Cultural Context: Fieldwork Comparisons and Cultural Influences 6 Dressing Up/Dressing Down: Reconsidering Sex and Gender Culture 7 Thinking of Themselves: Transvestism and Concepts of the Person Appendices |
Target Audience Note: | Specialized. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Transvestism Transvestism -- Psychological aspects Transvestites -- India Transvestites -- Great Britain Transvestism -- Cross-cultural studies |