SOCI-2636EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Two-Spirit, Crow Nation, Gender Variance
29 Sep 2018
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Strange country this: an introduction to north american gender diversity. Strange country this, where males assume the dress and perform the duties of females, while women turn men and mate with their own sex! . Among the crow indians, denig found that some of the most important and respected individuals were men and women who in american and european societies would be condemned, persecuted, jailed, and even executed . Their lifestyles would be called immoral and perverse, their sexuality deemed unnatural. The original peoples of north america saw no threat in homosexuality or gender variance. The evidence of multiple genders in north america offers support for the theory of social constructionism, which maintains that gender roles, sexualities, and identities are not natural, essential, or universal, but constructed by social processes and discourses. Certain elements of western beliefs and epistemology have been essentialized as universal features of human societies.
