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Web LinksAnne Fausto-Sterling's Website
http://bms.brown.edu/faculty/f/afs/afs.html
Information about Fausto-Sterling's research and publication on sex and gender.The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington
http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/
Quote: "The mission of The Kinsey Institute is to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction." An academic research institute.Human Relations Area Files
http://www.yale.edu/hraf/
The "HRAF" files website, where you can search published ethnographies on almost any topic, across thousands of different cultural groups.Native American Sex/Gender/Sexual Orientation
http://www.queertheory.com/cultures/ethnics/queer_native_americans.htm
A website with an extensive set of links to other Internet sites with resources for and about Native Americans of alternative sex/gender/sexual orientation.Native American Sacred Traditions and Western Culture
http://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/native.html
A website with many Native American perspectives on issues of gender diversity among traditional and modern Native Americans.NNAAPC's Curricula and Materials
http://ngsc.nnaapc.org/research/resources.html
Quote: "The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center has series of a culturally specific educational materials. These resources were created to address a variety of issues and levels of experience. There is no cost to these materials and you are encouraged to use them in your work in your own community.Inside Intersexuality
http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/gender/intersexuals/
A website with lots of information, hosted by a "true hermaphrodite" (46XX/XY) individual. Very enlightening, it includes both medical information about the various conditions leading to diagnoses of intersexuality, personal perspectives, and educational resources.Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
http://www.geneclinics.org/profiles/androgen/details.html
A medically-oriented website with detailed information about the causes, effects, and differential diagnoses of different form of AIS.Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: Nüshu Narratives
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/back_issues/nushu2.html
Quote: "The discovery of a corpus of manuscripts written in an unknown script (nüshu) by women for their sworn sisters in an isolated area of rural China is one of the most intriguing discoveries in the field of Chinese popular culture during the 1980s. The nüshu manuscripts were (re)discovered in an isolated community in Jiangyong county in Hunan province in 1983."The Gender Centre, Inc., of Sydney, Australia
http://www.gendercentre.org.au/index1.htm
An Australian website, quote: "The Gender Centre is committed to developing and providing services and activities which enhance the ability of people with gender issues to make informed choices. The Gender Centre is also committed to educating the public and providers about the needs of people with gender issues."Human Sexuality Studies
http://hmsx.sfsu.edu/aboutus.html
The website for the program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University. Quote: "The Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) provides students with knowledge about processes and variations in sexual cultures, sexual identity and gender role formation, and the social, cultural, historical, and ethical foundations of sexuality, intimate relationships, and sexual health." The Director of the program is cultural anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, "has written about sexual cultures, and sexual and gender identity development cross-culturally and in the United States. Dr. Herdt's studies of the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea, made famous in a series of books and papers beginning with Guardians of the Flutes (1981), is a key case study that analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices." He is also one of the founders of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society (IASSCS)[http://www.miid.net/diversity/iss2.htm]National Transgender Advocacy Coalition
http://www.ntac.org/billgr.html
Quote: "NTAC, the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition, is a §501(c)(4) political advocacy coalition working to establish and maintain the right of all transgendered, intersexed,and gender-variant people to live and work without fear of violence or discrimination."STRAP: Society of Trans and Gender Rights Advocates of the Philippines
http://www.strap-pilipinas.org/
Quote: "The Society of Trans & Gender Rights Advocates of the Philippines (STRAP) is a SEC-registered non-profit membership organization that upholds gender equality, the right of everyone for self-determination of their gender identity regardless of chromosomal sex, genitalia, assigned birth sex, or initial gender role; and the freedom to express one's self-defined gender identity free from discrimination and violence." |
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