Title: Gender bender - Wikipedia
Headings: Gender bender
Gender bender
Contents
Gender binary
Subsidiary cultures
Gender bending in practice
Cross-dressing and androgyny
Drag
Literature
Software
Non-political gender bending
Judith Butler and gender as performance
Gender and childraising
Examples
The Cockettes
Marc Bolan
David Bowie and Lou Reed
New York Dolls
Rocky Horror (Picture) Show
Prince
Grace Jones
Annie Lennox
Phranc
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Boy George
RuPaul
It's Pat
Marilyn Manson
Eddie Izzard
Lady Gaga
In films
See also
References
External links

Content: Crossing these lines has been interpreted by some Christians as a moral transgression. Subsidiary cultures
Other cultures - often indigenous peoples, or subcultures that exist within Western cultures - may conceptualize gender as having more than two options, and even see their people as potentially fulfilling more than one gender role. Some indigenous peoples of North America have historically had more than two gender roles as part of their social structure, while others, who may or may not have embraced this diversity historically, may accept modern two spirit people as part of their communities now. Other cultures may see people as being capable of embodying more than one gender role at different times, or of being "in the middle", "embracing both male and female spirit". One such example is the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. People of the Bugis society have a total of five genders. These genders include what would traditionally be seen as cisgender man and woman, as well as transgender men and women, and the androgynous Bissu shamans. Gender bending in practice
Often, parody and exaggeration are used to transgress gender roles, usually to expose them as artificial. For example, a person who engages in gender bending may purposefully exaggerate conventional notions of femininity, or masculinity. Gender bending can also be achieved through cross-dressing and androgyny, both of which challenge and contribute to dismantling the gender binary by separating expression or performance of gender from perceptions of biological or physiological sex.