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This paper reviews efforts to incorporate cultural considerations on sexual and gender identity disorders in DSM-IV. An initial literature review revealed very few sources that met the criteria of relevance for the DSM constructions of sexual and gender identity disorders. Cultural caveats were included in introductions to the sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias, but not for the gender identity disorders of DSM-IV. Discussion of the Culture and Diagnosis Work Group's suggestions for revision shows that: (i) we were more successful at getting culturally insensitive statements eliminated from preliminary drafts than in getting culturally sensitive statements included in the final document; and (ii) although cultural considerations were considered important, any challenge to the basic nosological assumptions that underlie the categories themselves went unheeded. The DSM-IV categories of sexual disorder are also taken to task for the inherent notion that while a culturally informed critique may be appropriate for some exotic societies it is irrelevant for our own and for a lack of sensitivity to gender issues that have been well articulated in the literature.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Lowell S. Gustafson -- One: Multiplicity and Discourse in Maya Gender Relations 11 -- Marvin Cohodas -- Two: Shared Gender Relations: Early Mesoamerica and the Maya 55 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Three: Household and State in Pre-Hispanic Maya Society: Gender, Identity, and Practice 75 -- Julia A. Hendon -- Four: The Gendered Architecture of Uxmal 93 -- Amelia M. Trevelyan and Heather W. Forbes -- Five: Mother/Father Kings 141 -- Lowell S. Gustafson -- Six: Corn Deities and the Male/Female Principle 169 -- Karen Bassie-Sweet -- Seven: The Popol Vuh and the Decline of Maya Women's Status 191 -- Beatriz Barba de Pina Chan -- Eight: A Divine Couple's Gender Roles in the Setting of the Earth at Palenque 227 -- Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia -- Nine: Holy Mother Earth and Her Flowery Skirt: The Role of the Female Earth Surface in Maya Political and Ritual Performance 281 -- Carolyn E. Tate -- Ten: Female and Male: The Ideology of Balance and Renewal in Elite Costuming among the Classic Period Maya 319 -- F. Kent Reilly -- Eleven: Desiring Women: Classic Maya Sexualities 329 -- Rosemary A. Joyce

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