Two-Spirit People
Subtitle: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Contributors: Sue-Ellen Jacobs (Editor); Wesley Thomas (Editor); Sabine Lang (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780252066450
Subjects: Gender Studies; Indigenous peoples; Religious groups; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Gay Studies; Social Science / Native American Studies; Sociology - General; Gays; Identity; Indian women; Indians of North America; North America; Sexual behavior
First sentence: 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).