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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes
toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a
new preface and supplemental bibliographyPrior 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. Many of the essays
also address how indigenous people made meaning of gender and how
these meanings developed over time within their own communities.
Several contributors also consider sexual practice as a mode of
cultural articulation, as well as a vehicle for the expression of
gender roles. 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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