SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Khanith, Bisexuality, Asexuality
3 May 2018
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Gender
- Beyond masculine males and feminine females:
- Cross-cultural evidences
- Berdache (berdash) or “two-spirited” (quetho in New Mexico)
- Ascribed to individuals, not self-given. Aboriginal men dressed
as women. Number of different regions where this was a
common term that was used by European colonizers. Self-
identification was more aligned with the term “two-spirited” for
men who dress as women, who perform social roles of women,
and have sex with men.
- Nadle (nad-leh)
- Native American Navajo cultures to describe masculine
females and feminine males. Divergent biological gendered
identities who engage in special roles but are not treated in
disdain. They are treated with reverence rather than something
that needs to be marginalized or hidden.
- Hijra
- Broadly describes Indian men who undergo castration to
remove external genitalia (penis and testicles), wear female
clothing, and act like women (adopt social roles and
expectations of how you perform symbolically) like a woman.
In some cases, they perform a spiritual role (weddings, births).
There’s alternate social cases, but their roles is revered.
Considered a third gender.
- Xanith (han-eeth)
- Islamic oman. Individuals who fit into an intermediate gender,
served as homosexual partners, and take the role of women in
families, relationships, and some religious practices. They
would be
- Mahu (ma-hoo)
- Term in Hawaii to describe homosexual individuals. In Tahiti
and Polynesia, it is descriptive as a third-gender of individuals.
Sociologists and anthropologists→ a biological male who plays
female (feminine) social roles but this performance adopts
some male roles depending on the social context or situation.
- Danshi (Japan)
- Nyuuhaafu: Considered a third gender of men who dress and
act feminine.
- Transsexual versus transgender identities
- Transsexual: gender norms
- Recognizes someone who made a biological switch to
manipulate their biology to fit with a conventional
understanding of a biological male or a biological female
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Document Summary
Berdache (berdash) or two-spirited (quetho in new mexico) Number of different regions where this was a common term that was used by european colonizers. Self- identification was more aligned with the term two-spirited for men who dress as women, who perform social roles of women, and have sex with men. Native american navajo cultures to describe masculine females and feminine males. Divergent biological gendered identities who engage in special roles but are not treated in disdain. They are treated with reverence rather than something that needs to be marginalized or hidden. Broadly describes indian men who undergo castration to remove external genitalia (penis and testicles), wear female clothing, and act like women (adopt social roles and expectations of how you perform symbolically) like a woman. In some cases, they perform a spiritual role (weddings, births). There"s alternate social cases, but their roles is revered.
