Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations, Second Edition

I enjoyed learning about individuals whose gender and sexuality varies from the heteronormative gender categories in most Western societies. This text was used as a fundamental piece in understanding different expressions of gender and sexuality cross culturally, through an anthropology course focused on the distinction between gender, sexuality, and socially constructed roles attributed to gender. I liked how the text focused on the experiences of such gender and sexually variant individuals from cultures/societies in Philippines, Brazil, India, Native America, and many others. Even though heteronormative relationships in which men reign supreme over women the relationships of those not within such relationships mimics the structure of such male/female relationships, in some ways which are more destructive than others. One major issue I had about this text was that it was focused on the experiences of men, whether transgender or homosexual, which didn't leave much room for the experience of women as transgender or homosexual and that is not alright, to explore a skewed/ biased experiences of gender, sexuality, and social roles. One major thing that I learned from this text was that an individual's gender, sexuality, and social roles do not have to be the same, however there is a lot of overlap, but it was important for me to learn this distinctions in an ever changing world in respect to non heteronormative identities whether through expressions of gender or sexuality. This text would be a great addition for any women's studies or anthropology course which investigates the differences in gender, sexuality, and social roles. Or for individual exploration into these social issues.This would be a good text for a college course or any other educational courses, as well as informal ones too. This text came well before Amazon's expected delivery date in great condition. Also, I returned it for Amazon credit at the end of the semester since Amazon does have the tradeback program which is great for students to earn Amazon credit.

for all this gender diversity - there is some point where there is no diversity - every transgender takes his issue extremely seriously. 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 abovethis "problem" and treat it as a joke. I tend to think Serena Nanda missed this population because she has a focus on naive and uneducatedpopulations. and because she herself lacks any sense of humor.

Use for class

Didnt like the book all that much but i needed it for a class and i didnt fail so i cant complain

Love this book!! Very engaging and interesting. Reading it for a women gender studies class I am taking but i would definitely buy this for a free time read as well. Really cool.

The product is as perfect as I expected.

It's a map of gender diversity. Solid theory, rich example, easy to read. Very helpful for academia.

Was unable to open book on windows 8.1. Why would you not allow this to open on a windows tablet? There was no notice that it wouldn't work on windows tablet. This makes my school work much more complicated as I was hoping to use only one device during school.