Gendered Justifications for Violence in the First and Second Seminole Wars: A Case Study of Masculinity, Protection, and Colonial Expansion

• In Event: Gendered Violence and Politics

Brief Overview

This paper explores how gendered rhetoric around protection and masculine responsibility was used to legitimize U.S. expansionist violence against Indigenous populations and into Spanish territory during the First and Second Seminole Wars.

Author

• Chelsea Joliet, The Graduate Center, CUNY