| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
875363
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Boy-wives and female husbands : : studies in African homosexualities /\ edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.
|
| Edition Statement
|
:
|
1st ed.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
New York :: St. Martin's Press,, 1998.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xxii, 358 pages :: maps ;; 22 cm
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
031221216X
|
|
|
:
|
: 0312238290
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780312212162
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780312238292
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-351) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
"A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a twenty-five-year-old Kikuyu / Stephen O. Murray -- Occurrences of contrary-sex among the negro population of Zanzibar (1899) / M. Haberlandt, translated by Brandley Rose -- Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magai: "homosexuality" on the East African Coast / Deborah P. Amory -- A 1958 visit to a Dakar boy brothel / Michael Davidson -- Male lesbians and other queer notions in Huasa / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- West African Homoeroticism: West African men / Nii Ajen -- Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921,1911) / Günter Tessmann, translated by Bradley Rose -- Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1732) / Jean Baptiste Labat, translated by Will Roscoe -- Same-sex life among a few negro tribes of Angola (1923) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose -- Homosexuality among the natives of Southwest Africa (1925-26) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose -- "Good God Almighty, what's this!": homosexual "crime" in early colonial Zimbabwe / Marc Epprecht -- "When a woman loves a woman" in Lesotho: Love, sex, and the (Western) construction of homophobia / Kendall -- Sexual politics in contemporary Southern Africa / Stephen O. Murray -- Woman-woman marriage in Africa / Joseph M. Carrier and Stephen O. Murray -- Diversity and identity: the challenge of African homosexulities -- African groups with same-sex patterns -- Organizations of homosexuality and other social structures in sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen O. Murray.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
"Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans. Among African Americans questions surrounding sexuality and gender in traditional African societies have become especially contentious. In fact, same-sex love was and is widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents same-sex patterns in some fifty societies, in every region of the continent. Essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines explore institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, mixed gender roles in East and West Africa, and recent developments in South Africa, where lesbians and gays successfully made that nation the first in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. An invaluable resource for everyone interested in the continent's history and culture, Boy-Wives and Female Husbands reveals the denials of African homosexualities for what they are - prejudice and willful ignorance."--Jacket.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Gay men-- Africa-- Identity.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homophobia in anthropology.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homophobia in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality-- Africa-- History.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality-- Africa-- Public opinion.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Lesbians-- Africa-- Identity.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Public opinion-- Africa.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Gay men-- Identity.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homophobia in anthropology.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homophobia in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality-- Public opinion.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
homosexuality.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homosexuality.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Lesbians-- Identity.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Public opinion.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Subsaharan Africa.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Homoseksualiteit.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Publieke opinie.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Africa, Social aspects.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Africa.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
306.76/6/096
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
HQ76.3.A6B69 1998
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
71.25bcl
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Murray, Stephen O.
|
|
|
:
|
Roscoe, Will.
|