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The history of sexuality and gender expression varied among the vast diaspora of Indigenous tribes. The berdache, a cross-gender role, existed in the tribes of the Kaska of the Yukon Territory, the Klamath of southern Oregon, and the Mohave, Cocopa, and Maricopa of the Colorado River in pre-colonial times. [3]
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in Western ...
Gender history is a sub-field of history and gender studies, which looks at the past from the perspective of gender. It is in many ways, an outgrowth of women's history . The discipline considers in what ways historical events and periodization impact women differently from men.
In fact, where sexuality is concerned, “woke gender ideology” has a long tradition and history behind it. That’s clear from foundational works by revered thinkers like Plato.
In the 1974 edition of Masculine/Feminine or Human, the author uses "innate gender" and "learned sex roles", [114] but in the 1978 edition, the use of sex and gender is reversed. [115] By 1980, most feminist writings had agreed on using gender only for socioculturally adapted traits.
Robert Stoller, whose work was the first to treat sex and gender as "two different orders of data", in his book Sex and Gender: The Development of Masculinity and Femininity, [45] uses the term 'sex' to refer to the "male or the female sex and the component biological parts that determine whether one is a male or a female". [46]
In Butler's terms the performance of gender, sex, and sexuality is about power in society. [11] [74] They locate the construction of the "gendered, sexed, desiring subject" in "regulative discourses". A part of Butler's argument concerns the role of sex in the construction of "natural" or coherent gender and sexuality. [75]
LGBTQ history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love, diverse gender identities, and sexualities in ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer peoples and cultures around the world. What survives after many centuries of persecution—resulting in shame, suppression, and ...