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 Boy-Wives
and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities
by Stephen O. Murray (Editor), Will Roscoe (Editor) (Paperback) |
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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities
by Stephen O. Murray (Editor), Will Roscoe (Editor) (Hardcover) ~
Among the many myths created about Africa, the myth that homosexuality
is absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most enduring.
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 the nation the first in the world
to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Also included are oral histories, folklore, and translations of early
ethnographic reports by German and French observers. The first serious
study of the subject,
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
is a
significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies,
offering new, often surprising views of African societies, while
posing interesting challenges to recent theories of sexuality. 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. |
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Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American
Fiction by Devon W. Carbado (Editor), et al |
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Colonialism and Homosexuality
by
Robert Aldrich |
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Defiant Desire
by Mark Gevisser (Editor), Edwin Cameron (Editor) |
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Forbidden Friendships by
Michael Rocke |
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Hello Sailor! The Hidden History of Gay Life at Sea by Paul Baker (Author), Jo Stanley (Author) |
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Homosexualities (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago
Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
by Stephen O. Murray,
University of Chicago Press |
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Homosexuality and Civilization
by Louis Crompton (Author) |
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Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature by
Stephen O. Murray (Editor), et al |
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One More River to Cross
by Keith Boykin (Author) |
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Out/Lines : Gay Underground Erotic Graphics From Before Stonewall by Thomas Waugh (Editor)
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Outlaw: John Rechy by
Charles Casillo |
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Roman Homosexuality by
Craig A. Williams |
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
by John Boswell (Author) |
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Sexing the Body by
Anne Fausto-Sterling |
 Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem
Societies (Haworth Gay&Lesbian Studies)
by Arno Schmitt (Editor), Jehoeda Sofer (Editor) |
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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
by
Graham Robb |
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Strapped for Cash : A History of American Hustler Culture by Mack Friedman (Author)
An inside view of American hustler culture from the 1600s to today.
Male and transgendered hustlers have been a mostly -invisible part of
American life for more than 400 years. Their invisibility leaves these
men unprotected, victimized and at risk for sexually transmitted
diseases, assault and murder. |
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The Greatest Pretenders
by E. Lynn Harris (Author) |
 The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities
by Delroy Constantine-Simms (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Foreword) |
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The
Night Before Christmas Has Come and Gone...Now What? by
Linda Beecham (Author) (Paperback -
Jan. 29, 2010)
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