Third sex, third gender : beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history / edited by Gilbert Herdt.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-596) and index.

Introduction : Third sexes and third genders / Gilbert Herdt -- Living in the shadows : eunuchs and gender in Byzantium / Kathryn M. Ringrose -- London's Sapphists : from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture / Randolph Trumbach -- Sodomy and the pursuit of a third sex in the early modern period / Theo van der Meer -- "A female soul in a male body" : sexual inversion as gender inversion in nineteenth-century sexology / Gert Hekma -- Woman becomes man in the Balkans / René Grémaux -- Polynesian gender liminality through time and space / Niko Besnier -- How to become a berdache : toward a unifed analysis of gender diversity / Will Roscoe -- Hijras : an alternative sex and gender role in India / Serena Nanda -- Mistaken sex : culture, biology and the third sex in New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt -- Transcending and transgendering : male-to-female transsexuals, dichotomy and diversity / Anne Bolin.