{"product_id":"changing-sex-and-bending-gender-9781845450991","title":"Changing Sex and Bending Gender","description":"\u003cp\u003e Anthropologists and historians have shown us that 'male' and 'female' are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary and involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerful and compelling illustrations of how, across a wide range of cultures, processes of gender transformation are shaped within, and ultimately constrained by, social and political context. From medical responses to biological ambiguity, legal responses to cases brought by transsexuals, the historical role of the eunuch in Byzantium, the social transformation of gender in Northern Albania and in the Southern Philippines, to North American 'drag' shows, English pantomime and Japanese kabuki theatre, this volume offers revealing insights into the ambiguities and limitations of gender transformation\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaw, Alison:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlison Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Department of Public Health. Her research interests include medical anthropology, ethnicity, kinship and social aspects of genetics. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eKinship and Continuity: Pakistani families in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (Harwood\/Routledge 2000); \u003ci\u003eA Pakistani Community in Britain\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford: Blackwell 1888) and \u003ci\u003eGet by in Hindi and Urdu\u003c\/i\u003e (1989 BBC Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArdener, Shirley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eShirley Ardener\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, the University of Oxford's International Development Centre. She was the Founding Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, now known as the International Gender Studies Centre, whose programme was recognised by her OBE, and of which she is an active honorary member. She has edited and contributed to many books on gender and is the editor of Berghahn's series Cameroon Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922246963474,"sku":"9781845450991","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_404ddc53-d77b-40bc-ad39-7754723fd83b.jpg?v=1738926473","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/changing-sex-and-bending-gender-9781845450991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}