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Unzipping Gender by Charlotte Suthrell

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Part of Dress Body Culture series

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Drawing on primary fieldwork, this book offers a cross-cultural study of transvestism through an examination of transvestites in Britain and the Hijras of India. The author tackles the question of whether or not transvestism is motivated primarily by sex or gender, and she challenges the straightforward binary divide in Western theories of gender.

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Unzipping Gender by Charlotte Suthrell

Drawing on fieldwork, this book offers a cross-cultural study of transvestism through an examination of transvestites in Britain and the Hijras of India. It tackles the question of whether or not transvestism is motivated primarily by sex or gender, and also challenges the straightforward binary divide that dominates Western theories of gender.

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This is excellent - a really instructive insight into an often overlooked but pervasive element of Indian culture made all the more resonant by a forgeign comparisonVeena Indian Arts Review Unzipping Gender is a 'good read' that makes a significant and epistemologically valuable contribution to the body of knowledge of (trans)gender and teh study of sexualities that will benefit students, academic scholars or indeed anyone else who reads Suthrell's work. Anne Beaumont-Vernon, Sexualities
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ISBN 13 9781859737255
ISBN 10 1859737250
Title Unzipping Gender
Author Charlotte Suthrell
Series Dress Body Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2004-04-01
Number of pages 224
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