warrhameh
Cocopa
Noun
warrhameh
- female-bodied person who lives and participates in combat as a man
See also
- elha (“male-bodied person who lives as a woman”)
- two-spirit
References
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010)
- Kenneth Plummer, Sexualities: Difference and the diversity of sexualities →ISBN, 2002)
- Evelyn Blackwood, The Many Faces of Homosexuality →ISBN, 2013)
- Serena Nanda, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations (1999, →ISBN, page 24: In addition to occupation, female gender variants might assume other characteristics of men. Cocopa warrhameh wore a masculine hairstyle and had their noses pierced, like boys (Lang 1998:283).