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Unzipping Gender - Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture (Hardcover, First)
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Unzipping Gender - Sex, Cross-Dressing and Culture (Hardcover, First)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are
transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse,
while they are accepted in other societies? What are the
implications for the categories of male and female when considering
transvestism? can debate models of sex, gender and sexuality.
Drawing on primary fieldwork, Unzipping Gender offers a
cross-cultural study of transvestism through an examination of
transvestites in Britain and the Hijiras of India. The author
tackles the critical question of whether or not transvestism is
motivated primarily by sex or gender, and she challenges the
straightforward binary divide that dominates Western theories of
gender. Taking into account the importance of material culture, she
also pays close attention to the detail of dress and considers the
artefactual nature of the construction of the self through
clothing. cross-cultural perspectives, Suthrell illustrates the
social construction of sex and gender. She considers the roles that
emotion, mythology, imagery and belief systems play in influencing
ideas about sex and gender in different cultures. Since sex and
gender are not discrete entities, but intertwined, Suthrell argues
for a more sophisticated response to the complex practice of
transvestism. imperative to examine the underlying social and
symbolic structures. This study across cultures leads the way.
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