Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations

Book Description
How 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.

From the Publisher
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Burton, Culture and the Human Body: An Anthropological Perspective (ISBN 157766180X); Margolis, True to Her Nature: Changing Advice to American Women (ISBN 1577661273); Mascia-Lees-Black, Gender and Anthropology (ISBN 1577660668); Nielsen, Sex and Gender in Society: Perspectives on Stratification, Second Edition (ISBN 0881334561); and Womack-Marti, The Other Fifty Percent: Multicultural Perspectives on Gender Relations (ISBN 0881337226).

From the Inside Flap
"Precisely because of its wide-range, detail and clarity the value of Gender Diversity extends beyond its target student audience and is an essential reference book for anyone interested in questions of sexual difference, personhood and globalisation." -- The Australian Journal of Anthropology (Vol. 13, No. 1)


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How 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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