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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850

Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, Native Americans across the continent had developed richly complex attitudes and forms of expression concerning gender and sexual roles. The role of the "berdache," a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man in native societies, h...

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Autres auteurs: Yarbrough, Fay A. (Éditeur intellectuel), Slater, Sandra (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University of South Carolina Press 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Subverting Gender Roles in the Sixteenth Century: Cabeza de Vaca, the Conquistador Who Became a Native American Woman
  • "Nought but women": Constructions of Masculinities and Modes of Emasculation in the New World
  • Revisiting Gender in Iroquoia
  • Who Was Salvadora de los Santos Ramirez, Otomi Indian?
  • Hannah Freeman: Gendered Sovereignty in Penn's Peaceable Kingdom
  • Women, Labor, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation
  • Womanish Men and Manlike Women: The Native American Two-spirit as Warrior
  • Two-spirit Histories in Southwestern and Mesoamerican Literatures
  • Suggested Readings
  • Contributors
  • Index
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