Two-Spirit People
Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang
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This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, transgendered, and other "marked" Native Americans.
Focusing on the concept of two-spirit people--individuals not necessarily gay or lesbian, transvestite or bisexual, but whose behaviors or beliefs may sometimes be interpreted by others as uncharacteristic of their sex--this book is the first to provide an intimate look at how many two-spirit people feel about themselves, how other Native Americans treat them, and how anthropologists and other scholars interpret them and their cultures.
1997 Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize for an edited book given by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.
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Women in science, Biography, Women scientists, Indian gays, Indians of North America, Gay men, Gender identity, Indian gay men, Sex role and Native Americans, Indian lesbians, Homosexuality, Lesbianism, Social conditions, Sexual behavior, Lesbians, Identity, Native American gays, Indian women, north america, Gays, identity, Gay men, social conditions, Indian women, Gays, LGBTQ anthropology, Ruth Benedict PRize, Indians of north america--sexual behavior, Indian women--sexual behavior, Indian women--north america--sexual behavior, Gays--identity, Gays--north america--identity, Lesbians--identity, Lesbians--north america--identity, Indian gays--social conditions, Indian gays--north america--social conditions, Indian lesbians--social conditions, Indian lesbians--north america--social conditions, Two-spirit people, Indian women--sexual behavior--north america, E98.s48 t86 1997, 306.7/089/97Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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July 1, 1997, University of Illinois Press
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"In 1992, nearing the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of "Berdache: A Brief Review of the Literature" (Jacobs 1968), it became important to me to questions whether the "berdache" [sic] enterprise of the 1980s had been part of a movement for remasculinization of certain American and European men (white heterosexual males with classic education) through the exotification of "others" (particularly males of color and males living in exoticized cultures)."
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