Gender

Question 1

What was Aristotle’s masterpiece?

Answer 1

• Anon
• a handbook on se and reproduction, not by Aristotle
• different ways of understanding the body and reposition

Question 2

European encounters with gender diversity in the americas

Answer 2

• both Catholicism and Protestantism are highly patriarchal
• denigration of indigenous systems and world views of gender
• persecution of gender diverse people

Question 3

Womanhood, sex and patriarchy

Answer 3

• gender panic of the 18th century focused on male sexuality and manliness
• socioeconomic changes and rise of the bourgeoise see aristocrats deemed effeminate, dandy

Question 4

Denigration of indingenous belief systems and practices

Answer 4

• clash of cosmologies, mesoamericans felt gender was dualistic and Spanish Catholicism felt it was binary
• Spanish missionaries claimed that Nahua women were sexually excessive and deceptive

Question 5

Criminalisation and Persecution

Answer 5

• indingeous people perceived to be ‘somodites’ and or ‘hemaphordites’
• gendercide to instil a 2 gender regime into people