Native American Women and Berdachism

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Psychology

 

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Laura G

 

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February 3, 2015

 

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University

 

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A

 

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7 / 1831

 

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This article will help us discover how berdachism seemed to blur the lines between male and female roles. In the article by DRK, entitled A Native American Perspective on the Theory of Gender Continuum, (1) the author points out how Native Americans seem to recognize more then two genders categorizes...
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Unlike most Americans who only accept male and female gender categories, many different tribes could have as many as five different categories for gender roles. One such category was referred to as Two- Spirit; the Europeans later dubbed this Berdache. Quoted from Shadi Rahimi, “The term "Two-Spirit" refers to a belief among some tribes that there are people who manifest both masculine and feminine spiritual qualities...
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