Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca
@article{Stephen2002SexualitiesAG, title={Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca}, author={Lynn Stephen}, journal={Latin American Perspectives}, year={2002}, volume={29}, pages={41 - 59} }
towns highlights the importance of historical continuities and discontinuities in systems of gender and their relationship to class, ethnicity (earlier coded as race), and sexuality. The various sexual roles, relationships, and identities that characterize contemporary rural Oaxaca suggest that instead of trying to look historically for the roots of &dquo;homosexuality,&dquo; &dquo;heterosexuality,&dquo; or even the concept of &dquo;sexuality,&dquo; we should look at how different indigenous…
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