Making the American Berdache: Choice or Constraint?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard C. Trexler
Journal of Social History, vol. 35, no. 3, Spring, 2002, pp. 613-638
Description
Argues that becoming a berdache was neither a matter of sexual preference nor freely entered into, but rather the role was a social construction that served particular social roles in the community.