Men as Women, Women as Men : : Changing Gender in Native American Cultures / / Sabine Lang.
As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role mode...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES
- PREFACE
- PART ONE Introduction, Background, and Definitions
- Chapter One: INTRODUCTION
- Chapter Two EARLY SOURCES: MISSIONARIES AND TRADERS, PHYSICIANS AND ETHNOLOGISTS
- Chapter Three TWENTIETH-CENTURY RESEARCH
- Chapter Four GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER ROLE, AND GENDER STATUS
- PART TWO Gender Role Change by Males
- Chapter Five E CROSS-DRESSING AND MIXED GENDER ROLES
- Chapter Six CROSS-DRESSING AND THE FEMININE GENDER ROLE
- Chapter Seven FEMININE ACTIVITIES WITHOUT CROSS-DRESSING
- Chapter Eight THE IMITATION OF "FEMININITY" AND INTERSEXUAUITY
- Chapter Nine WOMEN-MEN AS "SHAMANS," MEDICINE PERSONS, AND HEALERS
- Chapter Ten OTHER SPECIALIZED OCCUPATIONS OF WOMEN-MEN
- Chapter Eleven PARTNER RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY
- Chapter Twelve ENTRANCE INTO THE STATUS OF WOMAN-MAN
- Chapter Thirteen WOMEN-MEN IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES: IDEOLOGY AND REALITY
- PART THREE Gender Role Change by Females
- Chapter Fourteen CROSS-DRESSING AND MIXED GENDER ROLES
- Chapter Fifteen MEN-WOMEN IN MASCULINE OCCUPATIONS
- Chapter Sixteen STATUS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND ENTRANCE RITUALS OF MEN-WOMEN
- Chapter Seventeen WARRIOR WOMEN AND MANLY-HEARTED WOMEN
- PART FOUR The Cultural Context of Gender Role Change
- Chapter Eighteen ATTITUDES TOWARD WOMEN-MEN AND MEN-WOMEN
- Chapter Nineteen GENDER ROLE CHANGE AND HOMOSEXUALITY
- Chapter Twenty GENDER ROLE CHANGE IN NATIVE AMERICAN ORAL TRADITIONS
- Chapter Twenty-one CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- INDEX