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This book is full of interesting information about various cross-gender manifestations in different cultures.

This book is full of interesting information about various cross-gender manifestations in different cultures. It also gives some additional perspectives as to why our world is so sexist and male dominated.

Anthropologist Serena Nanda has heralded the importance of understanding human similarities and differences throughout .

Anthropologist Serena Nanda has heralded the importance of understanding human similarities and differences throughout her writing and teaching career. This was especially evidenced in her groundbreaking work, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, a masterful, far-reaching examination of the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality and how they are culturally constructed.

Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations. In sum, Serena Nanda has undertaken an extremely important project, as this is the first book of its kind. That is, even while the number of undergraduate courses dealing with issues of gender and sexuality in cross-cultural contexts continually increases, before now there has never been a single book which collects, compares, and contrasts a broad range of gender variant behaviours in various societies.

What are the relationships between culture and gender diversity? How has the diffusion of Euro-American culture .

for all this gender diversity - there is some point where there is no diversity - every transgender takes his issue extremely seriously. Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations. he is ready to take risks and make sacrifices. I refuse to believe it. there must have been intelligent and free thinking individuals who could rise above this "problem" and treat it as a joke. I tend to think Serena Nanda missed this population because she has a focus on naive and uneducated populations. and because she herself lacks any sense of humor.

Serena Nanda (born August 13, 1938) is an American author, anthropologist, and professor emeritus. She wrote the major reference book on the hijras of India. She received the Ruth Benedict Prize in 1990 for her monograph, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. 1990, Ruth Benedict Prize, Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Culture counts : a concise introduction to cultural anthropology, 2015. Love and marriage : cultural diversity in a changing world, 2019, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.

This book is one of the first attempts by a cultural anthropologist to present the concept of cross-cultural gender variation in the form of a small introductory volume designed for undergraduate students. Nanda is well known within anthropology for her studies of the transgendered Hijra of India.

Gender Diversity book.

Nanda's examples, which reveal the complexity of social responses toward sex/gender diversity, are ethnographically well documented and represent various geographical areas and sex/gender ideologies.