ISBN:
9781611172034
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1611172039
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (211 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Slater, Sandra. Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850
DDC:
305.897
Keywords:
Indians of North America Sexual behavior
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Indians of North America Psychology
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Gender identity History
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United States
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Sex role History
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United States
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Indian women Social conditions
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United States
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Indian women Biography
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United States
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Two-spirit people History
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United States
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Indians of North America Social conditions
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United States
;
Sex role History
;
Indian women Social conditions
;
Indian women Biography
;
Two-spirit people History
;
Indians of North America Social conditions
;
Gender identity History
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Indians of North America Psychology
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Indians of North America Sexual behavior
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Native American Studies
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Gender identity
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Indian women
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Indian women ; Social conditions
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Indians of North America ; Psychology
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Indians of North America ; Sexual behavior
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Indians of North America ; Social conditions
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Sex role
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Two-spirit people
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Biographies
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History
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United States
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Electronic books Biography
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History
Abstract:
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, has received recent scholarly attention but represents just one of many such occurrences of alternative gender identification in these cultures. Editors Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough have brought together scholars who explore the historical implications of these variations in the meanings of gender, sexuality, and marriage among indigenous communities in North America. Essays that span from the colonial period through the nineteenth century illustrate how these aspects of Native American life were altered through interactions with Europeans. Organized chronologically, Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 probes gender identification, labor roles, and political authority within Native American societies. The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions. Representing groundbreaking scholarship in the field of Native American studies, these insightful discussions of gender, sexuality, and identity advance our understanding of cultural traditions and clashes that continue to resonate in native communities today as well as in the larger societies those communities exist within
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