A Third Gender

Author : Gilbert Herdt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781942130529

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Third Sex, Third Gender by Gilbert Herdt Pdf

Most modern discussions of the relationship of biological sex to gender presuppose that there are two genders, male and female, founded on the two biological sexes. But not all cultures share this essentialist assumption, and even Western societies have not always embraced it. Bringing together historical and anthropological studies, Third Sex, Third Gender challenges the usual emphasis on sexual dimorphism and reproduction, providing a unique perspective on the various forms of socialization of people who are neither “male” nor “female.” The existence of a third sex or gender enables us to understand how Byzantine palace eunuchs and Indian hijras met the criteria of special social roles that necessitated practices such as self-castration, and how intimate and forbidden desires were expressed among the Dutch Sodomites in the early modern period, the Sapphists of eighteenth-century England, or the so-called hermaphrodite-homosexuals of nineteenth-century Europe and America. By contextualizing these practices and by allowing these bodies, meanings, and desires to emerge, Third Sex, Third Gender provides a new way to think about sex and gender systems that is crucial to contemporary debates within the social sciences.

Author : Joshua S. Mostow,Asato Ikeda,Ryoko Matsuba
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Boys in art
ISBN : 0888545142

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A Third Gender by Joshua S. Mostow,Asato Ikeda,Ryoko Matsuba Pdf

Gender relations were complex in Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). Wakashu, male youths, were desired by men and women, constituting a "third gender" with their androgynous appearance and variable sexuality. This book examines the fascination with wakashu in Edo-period culture. The book reproduces over a hundred works, mostly woodblock prints and illustrated books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is based on the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, which houses the largest collection of Japanese art in Canada, including more than 2,500 woodblock prints.

Author : Antonia Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006121469

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Women Who Become Men by Antonia Young Pdf

Based on extensive interviews, this text tells the frank and engrossing stories of these women, setting their lives within the wider context of a country undergoing radical upheaval and social transformation.

Author : Rita Santos
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508183075

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Beyond Gender Binaries by Rita Santos Pdf

While transgender people have been called many different things by different cultures, they have always existed. This book traces the history of how transgender, third gender, and other varieties of gender-nonconforming individuals have functioned in various societies. It documents how different societies' understanding of sex and gender has changed over time. Readers will explore how different cultures viewed these individuals as well as how their legal rights have evolved (or devolved). They will meet some of the historical figures that paved the way for so many others to live their truth.

Author : Rita Santos
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538381274

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Beyond Gender Binaries by Rita Santos Pdf

While transgender people have been called many different things by different cultures, they have always existed. This book traces the history of how transgender, third gender, and other varieties of gender-nonconforming individuals have functioned in various societies. It documents how different societies' understanding of sex and gender has changed over time. Readers will explore how different cultures viewed these individuals as well as how their legal rights have evolved (or devolved). They will meet some of the historical figures that paved the way for so many others to live their truth.

Author : Rhonda L McDaniel
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443104

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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L McDaniel Pdf

In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.

Author : Ilan Peled
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Extinct languages
ISBN : 3868351957

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Masculinities and Third Gender by Ilan Peled Pdf

Author : William Roscoe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312224796

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Changing Ones by William Roscoe Pdf

The term 'berdache' is a little-known, rarely discussed reference to Native American individuals who embodied both genders - what some might classify as 'the third sex.' Berdaches were known to combine male and female social roles with traits unique to their status as a third gender, defying and redefining traditional notions of gender-specific behavior. In Changing Ones , William Roscoe opens up and explores the world of berdaches, revealing meaningful differences between Native American culture and contemporary North American culture. Roscoe reveals that rather than being ostracized or forced into obscurity, berdaches were embraced by some 150 tribes, serving as artists, medicine people, religious experts, and tribal leaders. Indeed, Roscoe points out, berdaches sometimes even occupied a holy status within the tribal community. Roscoe begins with case studies of male and female berdaches, blending biography and ethnohistory, and he builds toward theoretical insights into the nature of gender diversity in North America. What results is highly engaging, readable, and illuminating. Changing Ones combines the fields of anthropology, sociology, queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, and gender studies to challenge conventional schools of thought and to expand every reader's horizons.

Author : Randolph Trumbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226812901

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Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1 by Randolph Trumbach Pdf

A revolution in gender relations occurred in London around 1700, resulting in a sexual system that endured in many aspects until the sexual revolution of the 1960s. For the first time in European history, there emerged three genders: men, women, and a third gender of adult effeminate sodomites, or homosexuals. This third gender had radical consequences for the sexual lives of most men and women since it promoted an opposing ideal of exclusive heterosexuality. In Sex and the Gender Revolution, Randolph Trumbach reconstructs the worlds of eighteenth-century prostitution, illegitimacy, sexual violence, and adultery. In those worlds the majority of men became heterosexuals by avoiding sodomy and sodomite behavior. As men defined themselves more and more as heterosexuals, women generally experienced the new male heterosexuality as its victims. But women—as prostitutes, seduced servants, remarrying widows, and adulterous wives— also pursued passion. The seamy sexual underworld of extramarital behavior was central not only to the sexual lives of men and women, but to the very existence of marriage, the family, domesticity, and romantic love. London emerges as not only a geographical site but as an actor in its own right, mapping out domains where patriarchy, heterosexuality, domesticity, and female resistance take vivid form in our imaginations and senses. As comprehensive and authoritative as it is eloquent and provocative, this book will become an indispensable study for social and cultural historians and delightful reading for anyone interested in taking a close look at sex and gender in eighteenth-century London.

Author : Ashish Kumar Gupta and Grishma Khobragade
Publisher : Vishwabharati Research Centre, Latur, Maharashtra
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Third Gender: Stain and Pain by Ashish Kumar Gupta and Grishma Khobragade Pdf

The comprehensive compendium The Third Gender: Stain and Pain is packed with prodigious research papers, articles and case studies of well-versed academicians from all over India. The anthology addresses the myriad facets of a transgender’s life. Their problems of social identity, inequality, marginalisation, social exclusion, health care issues, documentation, education, unemployment, and poverty have been discoursed from social, political, economic, cultural and jurisprudential along with scientific angles. The book incorporates not only the troubles and deplorable plights but also intimates some resolutions that can mitigate the embarrassing abasements of the Third Gender.

Author : HB Goldsmith (Dr. Hiren B. Soni)
Publisher : Google Book Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Third Gender by HB Goldsmith (Dr. Hiren B. Soni) Pdf

The book ‘The Third Gender’ is exclusively written for bisexual people, drags, LGBT community, non-binary gender, transfeminists, transgender people, and transsexual humans of the world. It reflects various types of stages and events that an LGBT community experiences in their lives. The author has highlighted the frequent phases of transgenderhood, which most of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders undergo. The book covers imperative information about detransition, digital transgender archive, gender transition, healthcare, law, legal recognition, legal status of transgender people, LGBT in mythology, LGBT movements, LGBT sex education, medicalization, scientific studies of transsexuality, sex and gender, sexual orientation, spirituality, transfeminism, transgender day of remembrance, transgender history, transgender people and religion, and transvestism. It also focuses on some perceptive and discerning issues like criticism, discrimination, LGBT health disparities, suicide among LGBT youth, transgender inequality, transgender sex workers, transmisogyny, transphobia, violence against transgender people, and violence and criminal justice system. The author is acknowledging all the colleagues, friends, relatives, social media friends, and contemporaries for their suggestions, feedbacks, and opinions. This book will definitely be a 24x7 guide and a handy tool for all transgenders worldwide. The author feels highly indebted to ‘The Almighty Living God’, who has helped him directly or indirectly in writing of this book. May all LGBTs of the world live happy and peaceful life !

Author : Andreea Zamfira,Christian de Montlibert,Daniela Radu
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783847412113

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Gender in Focus by Andreea Zamfira,Christian de Montlibert,Daniela Radu Pdf

This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to discover the realm of gender studies and to reflect upon the transformative potentialities of globalisation and interculturality.

Author : Lopamudra Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429534089

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Human Rights of the Third Gender in India by Lopamudra Sengupta Pdf

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships. It situates the issues and concerns of the Indian transgender community within a global context to explore the extent of social justice in independent India. By narrating stories of individuals, local movements and activities of groups like the Association of Transgender/Hijra in Bengal (ATHB) and others, the book gives context to the changes that globalisation has brought to the narrative around transgenders in India. This shift has challenged their marginalisation and has led to stories, films and queer individuals like Chapal Bhaduri – the jatra rani – and the iconic filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh to flourish and become relevant. This book brings these literatures and personal stories to the fore, allowing readers to perceive the changes and the challenges that Indian society faces when it comes to ensuring the rights for transgender people. This volume will be of interest to scholars of gender studies, queer studies, literature and social work along with readers who want to engage with the transgender movement and community in India.

Author : Jacob Tobia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735218833

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Sissy by Jacob Tobia Pdf

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above. "A beautiful book . . . honest and funny."--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show "Sensational."--Tyler Oakley "Jacob Tobia is a force." --Good Morning America "A trans Nora Ephron . . . both honest and didactic." --OUT Magazine "A rallying cry for anyone who's ever felt like they don't belong." --Woman's Day As a young child in North Carolina, Jacob Tobia wasn't the wrong gender, they just had too much of the stuff. Barbies? Yes. Playing with bugs? Absolutely. Getting muddy? Please. Princess dresses? You betcha. Jacob wanted it all, but because they were "a boy," they were told they could only have the masculine half. Acting feminine labelled them "a sissy" and brought social isolation. It took Jacob years to discover that being "a sissy" isn't something to be ashamed of. It's a source of pride. Following Jacob through bullying and beauty contests, from Duke University to the United Nations to the podiums of the Methodist church--not to mention the parlors of the White House--this unforgettable memoir contains multitudes. A deeply personal story of trauma and healing, a powerful reflection on gender and self-acceptance, and a hilarious guidebook for wearing tacky clip-on earrings in today's world, Sissy guarantees you'll never think about gender--both other people's and your own--the same way again.

Author : Pornchai Sereemongkonpol ,Susan Aldous
Publisher : Maverick House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781905379804

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Ladyboys by Pornchai Sereemongkonpol ,Susan Aldous Pdf

This extraordinary book is an intimate portrait of Thailand’s ladyboys: the men who have chosen to become women. Funny, passionate, angry and provocative, Ladyboys is a no-holds-barred look at the secret lives of Thailand’s transsexual men. The book offers intimate details of the lives that they’ve never publicly revealed. They talk about the choices they’ve made, their relationships, families, frustrations and hopes. The stories include those of an exotic cabaret performer, a sex worker and even a Muay Thai boxing champion. Ladyboys will leave you amused, saddened, and entertained.