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June 1996
614 pp., 24 illus.
$29.95/£22.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-942299-82-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-942-29982-3

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Cloth (1994)
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From Zone Books:
Third Sex, Third Gender
Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History
Edited by Gilbert Herdt

In the 1990s, questions of sex roles and individual identity have taken a central position in intellectual debates. These eleven essays in history and anthropology offer a novel perspective on these debates by questioning the place of sexual dimorphism in culture and history. They propose a new role for the study of alternative sex and gender systems in cultural science, as a means of critiquing thinking that privileges standard male/female gender distinctions and rejects the natural basis of other forms of sexuality.



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