Men as Women, Women as Men : Changing Gender in Native American Cultures /
Lang, Sabine
Men as Women, Women as Men : Changing Gender in Native American Cultures / Sabine Lang. - 1 online resource
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
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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 models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities. This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292799684
10.7560/747005 doi
Cross-dressing--Cross-cultural studies.
Homosexuality--Cross-cultural studies.
Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.
Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
E98.S48L3613 1998
Men as Women, Women as Men : Changing Gender in Native American Cultures / Sabine Lang. - 1 online resource
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities. This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292799684
10.7560/747005 doi
Cross-dressing--Cross-cultural studies.
Homosexuality--Cross-cultural studies.
Indians of North America--Sexual behavior.
Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Sex role--Cross-cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
E98.S48L3613 1998