Elon's 2001 Distinguished Scholar Award winner Dr. Anne Bolin will present: Imagining Gender: Transgressing the Western Paradigm in Yeager Recital Hall on April 2 at 7 PM. Details...
A reception follows at 8:00. For further information concerning the topic, see Dr. Bolin’s abstract provided below.
Abstract
The ethnographic record reveals a plethora of gendered possibilities beyond that tendered by the Western gender schema. My discussion will explore several of these forms of gender variance offered cross-culturally including diversity in gendered statuses and identities. This ethnological foray suggests that the complex continuum of sex as a biological phenomenon is grandly rivaled by the human transformation and mediation of sex into gender as a culturally informed system. When sexuality and orientation is added to the mix,
the mutability of gender becomes apparent and may take some unexpected turns. In the second part of my remarks, I will address the implications gender variance has for understanding the ongoing transformation of gender in North America.