Boy-Wives and Female Husbands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boy-Wives and Female Husbands write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 2021-04-01. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among 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.
Homosexualities
Homosexualities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homosexualities write by Stephen O. Murray. This book was released on 2002-06. Homosexualities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns it has formed throughout history. "[An] indispensable resource on same-sex sexual relationships and their social contexts. . . . Essential reading." —Choice "[P]romises to deliver a lot, and even more extraordinarily succeeds in its lofty aims. . . . [O]riginal and refreshing. . . . [A] sensational book, part of what I see emerging as a new commonsense revolution within academe." —Kevin White, International Gay and Lesbian Review
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Male Daughters, Female Husbands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Male Daughters, Female Husbands write by Professor Ifi Amadiume. This book was released on 2015-03-12. Male Daughters, Female Husbands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.
Female Husbands
Female Husbands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Female Husbands write by Jen Manion. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Female Husbands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives write by Ruth Morgan. This book was released on 2005. Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
