Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept
Romancing the Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the "Third Gender" Concept
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浪漫跨性别原住民：重新思考“第三性别”概念的使用
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2002
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L. Morgan
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Evan B. Towle;L. Morgan
这篇文章对“第三性别”概念如何在美国流行的跨性别者写作和关于跨性别者的作品中使用进行了批判性的审视。过去十年来，美国越来越多地使用跨文化例子来为跨性别运动提供合法性。对“变性人”的描述通常取自人类学家为美国观众撰写的性别差异的民族志描述。人类学入门教科书通常会引用印度的 hijra、北美原住民的 berdache、阿拉伯半岛的 xanith、西非的女丈夫以及巴布亚新几内亚从事“精液交易”的 Sambia（化名）男孩。 1 这些例子经常被一起归入“第三性别”标题下。
T his essay offers a critical examination of how “third gender” concepts are used in popular American writing by and about transgendered people. Over the past decade there has been an increase in the popular use of cross-cultural examples to provide legitimacy to transgender movements in the United States. Descriptions of the “transgender native” are often drawn from ethnographic portrayals of gender variation written by anthropologists for American audiences. Introductory anthropology textbooks commonly cite the hijra of India, the berdache of native North America, the xanith of the Arabian peninsula, the female husbands of western Africa, and the Sambia (a pseudonym) boys of Papua New Guinea who engage in “semen transactions.” 1 Such examples are often glossed together under the “third gender” rubric.