Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cultural production and reproductive issues : the significance of the charismatic movement in Nigeria / Tola Olu Pearce -- Sex, rhetoric, and ontology : fecundism as an ethical problem / William R. LaFleur -- The mythology of the masquerading post-menopausal woman / Wendy Doniger -- Beyond binary categories : mesoamerican religious sexuality / Sylvia Marcos -- The hijras : an alternative gender in Indian culture / Serena Nanda -- Mimesis in the face of fear : femme queens, butch queens, and gender play in the houses of greater Newark / Karen McCarthy Brown -- Tacit containment : social value, embodiment, and gender practice in northern Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Millennial capitalism, occult economies, and the crisis of reproduction in South Africa : further notes from the postcolony / Jean and John L. Comaroff.