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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462101003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, S.C., : University of South Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-59819-1

9786613910646

1-61117-203-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SlaterSandra

YarbroughFay A

Disciplina

305.897

Soggetti

Gender identity - United States - History

Indian women - United States

Indian women - United States - Social conditions

Indians of North America - Psychology

Indians of North America - Sexual behavior

Indians of North America - Social conditions

Sex role - United States - History

Two-spirit people - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 two-spirit as warrior / Roger M. Carpenter -- Two-spirit histories in Southwestern and



Mesoamerican literatures / Gabriel S. Estrada.