Gender Assignment as an Event—a Contemporary Approach for the Adequate Depiction of Historical Gender Categories.

This article explores the limitations of static gender assignments in databases and suggests a new approach to recording gender. It examines various cultural examples, such as the Hijra community in South Asia, the burrneshat of the Balkans, and eunuchs in the Byzantine world, to illustrate the comp...

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Published in:	Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 5 - 13
Main Authors:	Andrews, Tara L, Deierl, Marius, Ebel, Carla
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2024
Subjects:	Gender nonconformity Sons Gender Gender transition Gender expression Gender identity Binary gender system
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost