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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Albany : : State University of New York Press,, 2021. Ã2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY Press Open Access Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (367 pages) |
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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.