Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures
Subtitle: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 12, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415114820
First sentence: The ancient Greeks told of a certain Teiresias, a legendary blind seer, born a man, who was miraculously transformed into a woman, returning to his male form only after having lived eight years as a woman.
Description: The original essays in Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures explore the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. The contributors bring a unique mixture of perspectives to bear on the subject, with backgrounds in anthropology, history, literature, political science, comparative religion and women's studies.

They reveal the complex relation of gender reversal to taboo, and show how differing attitudes reveal much about particular cultures.