Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
by Serena Nanda
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Author: Serena NandaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-07
ISBN: 1577660749
Number of pages: 127
Publisher: Waveland Press
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Book Review: break down the barriers in your mind
Summary: 5 Stars
this was a very readable book about the idea of gender and how it's not as black and white as some would love to make it. it basically take a look at different cultures and documents how they view gender. when we think gender, in the society we live in (that i am sometimes not that happy about being a part of) we think of only two possibilities, male and female. homosexuals are still men or women if they like someone of the same gender, they're just weird (dripping with sarcasm). however, what we fail to realize (when i say we i mean main stream society, the mob, the collective) its that the concept of gender is a mental construction. what we see as fact and set in stone, is about as whimsically held together as a kite made out of feathers, it can fall apart at any time. as nature doesn't provide only two types of human beings, society must come to see that more than two types of human beings exist. some cultures take this better than others and that is the point of this book. in some cultures there are three or four genders, in some cultures other manifestations of sexual preference are revered.
this book looks at various cultures around the world and how they deal with the issue of gender. it's a short read, but a fun one.
Summary of Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
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.Cultural Books
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