Gender reversals and gender cultures anthropological and historical perspectives sabrina petra ramet ed new york routledge 1996 xiii 231 pp notes index. Gender reversals and gender cultures anthropological and historical perspectives sabrina petra ramet ed new york routledge 1996 xiii 231 pp notes index. Gender reversals and gender cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject the book documents the universality of gender reversals with chapters ranging from early christianity up to the present it examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo and how this underlies various religious and ritual . Gender reversals and gender cultures is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross cultural and cross historical perspective on the subject the book documents the universality of gender reversals with chapters ranging from early christianity up to the present it examines how gender reversals are bound up with taboo and how this underlies various religious and ritual