Rodney’s Reviews > The Zuni Man-Woman > Status Update

"What has Western civilization lost by its apparent lack of a counterpart to the [lhamana]--by, indeed, bending every social institution to the task of stigmatizing gender mediation?...This raises the question whether men and women today can ever achieve mutuality and wholeness as long as men who manifest qualities considered feminine, and women who do the same...are seen as deviants to be...stigmatized..."