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OverviewAmong the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are 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 or Arabs. In fact, same-sex love and nonbinary genders were and are widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents the presence of this diversity in some fifty societies in every region of the continent south of the Sahara. 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 the emergence of LGBTQ activism in South Africa, which became the first nation 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. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands was the first serious study of same-sex sexuality and gender diversity in Africa, and this edition includes a new foreword by Marc Epprecht that underscores the significance of the book for a new generation of African scholars, as well as reflections on the book's genesis by the late Stephen O. Murray. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Murray Hong Family Trust. Access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1714. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen O. Murray , Will Roscoe , Marc EpprechtPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438484099ISBN 10: 1438484097 Pages: 374 Publication Date: 01 April 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Figures and Tables New Foreword Marc Epprecht The Genesis of Boy-Wives and Female Husbands Stephen O. Murray Preface: ""All Very Confusing"" Africa and African Homosexualities: An Introduction Part I: Horn of Africa, Sudan, and East Africa Overview ""A Feeling within Me"": Kamau, a 25-Year-Old Kikuyu Stephen O. Murray Occurrences of Contrary-Sex among the Negro Population of Zanzibar (1899) M. Haberlandt, translated by Bradley Rose Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: ""Homosexuality"" on the East African Coast Deborah P. Amory Part II: West Africa Overview A 1958 Visit to a Dakar Boy Brothel Michael Davidson Male Lesbians and Other Queer Notions in Hausa Rudolf P. Gaudio West African Homoeroticism: West African Men Who Have Sex with Men Nii Ajen Part III: Central Africa Overview Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911) Günther Tessmann, translated by Bradley Rose Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1687) Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi, translated by Will Roscoe Same-Sex Life among a Few Negro Tribes of Angola (1923) Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose Part IV: Southern Africa Overview Homosexuality among the Natives of Southwest Africa (1925–1926) Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose and Will Roscoe ""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 Part V: Conclusions Woman-Woman Marriage in Africa Joseph M. Carrier and Stephen O. Murray Diversity and Identity: The Challenge of African Homosexualities Appendix 1: African Groups with Same-Sex Patterns Appendix 2: Organizations of Homosexuality and Other Social Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa Stephen O. Murray Bibliography Index"ReviewsWill Roscoe's books have been a great inspiration to me, and a great education as well. Growing up queer in a conservative Christian household in the 1980s and '90s, I came to believe that my love was a sin, punishable by eternal fire. His book Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book gave me my first clue as a teenager that my queerness could be beautiful-even spiritual. His book Changing Ones then helped me begin to understand the extent to which queer people of color have been excluded and erased from the 'official' histories we are all taught in school. More recently, in my work as a scholar of Black queer history, I have joyously returned to Boy-Wives and Female Husbands again and again. Each time I learn something new about our African queer ancestors, their lives, their loves, and their forgotten role in the many cosmologies of the mother continent. - Channing Gerard Joseph, University of Southern California """Will Roscoe's books have been a great inspiration to me, and a great education as well. Growing up queer in a conservative Christian household in the 1980s and '90s, I came to believe that my love was a sin, punishable by eternal fire. His book Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book gave me my first clue as a teenager that my queerness could be beautiful—even spiritual. His book Changing Ones then helped me begin to understand the extent to which queer people of color have been excluded and erased from the 'official' histories we are all taught in school. More recently, in my work as a scholar of Black queer history, I have joyously returned to Boy-Wives and Female Husbands again and again. Each time I learn something new about our African queer ancestors, their lives, their loves, and their forgotten role in the many cosmologies of the mother continent."" — Channing Gerard Joseph, University of Southern California" Author InformationStephen O. Murray (1950–2019) was an independent scholar who held a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Will Roscoe is an independent scholar, with a PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. They are the coeditors of Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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