HIST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, Campbell Scott, Gender Trouble
6 Oct 2018
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Lecture september 18 - first nations, two-spirits, three. Possessing two spirits thus, term two spirit: some indigenous culture had 4 m/f, m two spirit, f two spirit, first nations cultures revered two spirit people. Special" in the way they seemed to have more skills than a single man or woman. Two persons": treated with respect, often shamans and healers. Performance of the gender by two spirit how people made up their mind" about marrying. Nowell argued his culture was superior to white culture due to its openness and approval of diverse sexual-gender culture. Educated" to rehear these gender forms as non-christian, turned on two-spirited people: eradication of two-spirit, gender non-conformance central to colonization. Exterminated in the name of christian morality and the rights of empire. Indigenous women did not have plural husbands but could have successive husbands: dissolution of marriage equally available to women and men, power of women within their marriages.
