Lesbian, Gay, Transsexual, Bisexual Movements,<scp>C</scp>anada
Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada lived under gender and sexual codes unfamiliar to European colonizing powers. Their social organization included three or four different groupings, most commonly the male, the female, and the male‐female, or “two spirited” person, who had characteristics of b...
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Wiley
2009
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0908 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781405198073.wbierp0908 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0908 |
| Summary: | Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada lived under gender and sexual codes unfamiliar to European colonizing powers. Their social organization included three or four different groupings, most commonly the male, the female, and the male‐female, or “two spirited” person, who had characteristics of both sexes. Under this system, women often held important forms of political and social power, and there was widespread acceptance of same‐sex eroticism. Through missionary work and state repression, however, these norms were replaced with what became a normalized male‐dominated heterosexuality. These earlier practices of eroticism and gender diversity are now being reclaimed through the organizing efforts of two‐spirited people of the First Nations and the resistance of queer people. |
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