Gender and sexuality in indigenous North America, 1400-1850 / edited by Sandra Slater and Fay A. Yarbrough.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Slater, Sandy, editor.

Yarbrough, Fay A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Sexual behavior.

Gender identity--North America--History.

Gender identity.

Sex role--North America--History.

Sex role.

Indian women--North America--Social conditions.

Indian women.

Two-spirit people--North America--History.

Two-spirit people.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Sexual behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 2022.

Summary:

Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography 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. 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.

Contents:

Cover

Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America 1400-1850

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition

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

Supplemental Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Slater, Sandra Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850

ISBN:

9781643363691

1643363697

OCLC:

1355694369