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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands : Studies in African Homosexualities.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Stephen O.
Other Authors: Roscoe, Will., Epprecht, Marc.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SUNY Press Open Access Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • New Foreword
  • The Genesis of Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
  • Notes
  • References
  • Preface: "All Very Confusing"
  • Notes to the Preface
  • Africa and African Homosexualities: An Introduction
  • "Just Because They Like Them"
  • The African Continent
  • Same-Sex Patterns
  • Reading Colonial Texts on African Sexualities
  • Notes to the Introduction
  • Part I. Horn of Africa, Sudan, and East Africa
  • Overview
  • Horn of Africa
  • Sudan
  • Zande
  • Zande Woman-Woman Relations
  • Coastal East Africa
  • "Grinders"
  • The Interlake Region
  • Nilotes (Eastern Sudanic Languages)
  • Bantu Groups
  • Lesbianism in a Kenyan Novel
  • Notes
  • "A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a 25-Year-Old Kikuyu
  • Notes
  • Occurrences of Contrary-Sex among the Negro Population of Zanzibar (1899)
  • Notes
  • Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast
  • The Swahili-Speaking Coast of East Africa
  • "Transvestites" and "Homosexuals" in Swahili Society
  • Rituals of Inversion
  • Transvestite Performers
  • "Male Homosexuals"
  • The Omani Khanith (Xanith)
  • "Homosexuality," Gender, and Identity in Old Town
  • Swahili Terms for "Male Homosexuals"
  • Mashoga Identity: Practicing Gender
  • Transnational Popular Culture and New Identities
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Part II. West Africa
  • Overview
  • Sudanic West Africa
  • Religious Vocations in West Africa
  • Hausa
  • Yoruba
  • Coastal West Africa
  • Eunuchs, Amazons, and a Sometimes Lifelong "Adolescent Phase" in Dahomey
  • Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia
  • Gender-Defined Homosexuality in and around Senegal
  • Notes
  • A 1958 Visit to a Dakar Boy Brothel
  • Note
  • Male Lesbians and Other Queer Notions in Hausa
  • Notes
  • West African Homoeroticism: West African Men Who Have Sex with Men
  • Note
  • Part III. Central Africa.
  • Overview
  • Equatorial Region and the Congo Basin
  • The Kitesha Role among the Basongye
  • Southern Congo and Angola
  • Woman-Woman Patterns
  • Notes
  • Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911)
  • The Woman-Hater
  • The Story of the Man Who Didn't Love Women
  • The Four Suitors: A Pangwe Tale
  • Notes
  • Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1687)
  • Note
  • Same-Sex Life among a Few Negro Tribes of Angola (1923)
  • Notes
  • Part IV. Southern Africa
  • Overview
  • The Kalahari Desert
  • Southeastern Africa
  • "Wives of the Mines" in South Africa
  • Woman-Woman Patterns
  • Notes
  • Homosexuality among the Natives of Southwest Africa (1925-1926)
  • Notes
  • "Good God Almighty, What's This!": Homosexual "Crime" in Early Colonial Zimbabwe
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • "When a Woman Loves a Woman" in Lesotho: Love, Sex, and the (Western) Construction of Homophobia
  • Background: Lesotho and Its History
  • Problematizing the Author
  • Women in Lesotho
  • The Sexuality Debates
  • Notes
  • Sexual Politics in Contemporary Southern Africa
  • South Africa
  • President Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe International Book Fairs
  • Namibia
  • Botswana
  • Notes
  • Part V. Conclusions
  • Woman-Woman Marriage in Africa
  • The Gender of the Female Husband
  • Marriage without Sex?
  • Notes
  • Diversity and Identity: The Challenge of African Homosexualities
  • Diversity of Same-Sex Patterns
  • Identities and Roles
  • Social Correlates
  • Woman-Woman Relations
  • The Future of African Homosexualities
  • Notes
  • Appendix 1: African Groups with Same-Sex Patterns
  • Appendix 2: Organizations of Homosexuality and Other Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Language
  • Inheritance
  • Subsistence Activities
  • Sexual Division of Labor
  • Lack of Male Sexual Access to Females
  • Male Circumcision and Adolescent Male Isolation
  • Class and Urbanization
  • Summary.
  • Socioeconomic Structures of Societies with Female-Female Sexuality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover.

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