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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

202 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.
Indians of North America--Psychology.
Gender identity--United States--History.
Sex role--United States--History.
Indian women--United States--Social conditions.
Indian women--United States--Biography.
Two-spirit people--United States--History.
Indians of North America--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Slater, Sandra.
Yarbrough, Fay A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Subverting gender roles in the sixteenth century : Cabeza de Vaca, the conquistador who became a Native American woman / M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo -- "Nought but women" : constructions of masculinities and modes of emasculation in the New World / Sandra Slater -- Revisiting gender in Iroquoia / Jan V. Noel -- Who was Salvadora de los Santos Ramirez, Otomi Indian? / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- Hannah Freeman : gendered sovereignty in Penn's peaceable kingdom / Dawn G. Marsh -- Women, labor, and power in the nineteenth-century Choctaw Nation / Fay A. Yarbrough -- Womanish men and manlike women : the Native American berdache as warrior / Roger M. Carpenter -- Two-spirit histories in Southwestern and Mesoamerican literatures / Gabriel S. Estrada.

ISBN:

1570039968 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781570039966 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)698332415

LCCN:

2011000902

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)