Bryn Hammond’s Reviews > The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium > Status Update
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One of her stated aims is to help see our own dratted 'binary gender' system as a construct.
'Byzantine society was not wedded to a rigid bipolar gender structure of the sort long assumed to be “normal” in today’s Western societies, but rather was comfortable with alternative, intermediate gender categories.'
The term eunuch covered a lot of alts & intermediacy. She believes they make a third gender.
— Jun 23, 2015 12:34AM
'Byzantine society was not wedded to a rigid bipolar gender structure of the sort long assumed to be “normal” in today’s Western societies, but rather was comfortable with alternative, intermediate gender categories.'
The term eunuch covered a lot of alts & intermediacy. She believes they make a third gender.
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