Native American “woman” as symbol of “America”
European images of non-European women – cultural antipathy; erotic desire
Gender boundaries as cultural boundaries – cosmetics and sexuality
Lecture 12
Gender, social (dis)order, and the history of cultural categories
Cultural contrasts with respect to gender – English versus Spanish; English
versus Native American
European visual imagery of women in New World
| 1662-1663 | Joan Blaeu, Atlas Major (12 vols.) |
| 1671 |
Jacob von Meurs, America
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| ca.1641 | Albert Eckhout: Tapuya Woman; Tupi Woman; West African Woman (all in Brazil) |
| Taino women at work, drawing by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo | |
| Iroquois women at work, drawing by Joseph-Francois Lafitau | |
| 1653 | John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis (European in New World) |
| 1509 | woodcut of Vespucci among Native American women |
| 1804 | John Vanderlyn, Death of Jane McCrea |