[PDF] Boy Wives And Female Husbands eBook

Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438484119

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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.

Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2002-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0226551954

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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

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483801

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A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Professor Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1783603348

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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.

Author : Ruth Morgan
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770090934

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Author : Marc Epprecht
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773527515

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Challenging the stereotypes of African heterosexuality - from the precolonial era to the present.

Author : Serena Owusua Dankwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108495907

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A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.

Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 143840431X

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One of the world's oldest recorded folktales tells the story of a handsome young man and the older woman in whose house he resides. Overcome by her feelings for him, the woman attempts to seduce him. When he turns her down she is enraged, and to her husband she accuses the young man of attacking her. The husband, seemingly convinced of his wife's innocence, has the young man punished. But it is precisely that punishment that leads to the hero's vindication and eventual rise to power and prominence. In the West we know this tale--classified in folklore as the Potiphar's Wife motif--from its vivid narration in the Hebrew Bible. But as Shalom Goldman demonstrates in this book, the Bible's is only one telling of a story that appears in the scriptures and folklore of many peoples and cultures, in many different eras, including ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and ancient Mesopotamia, as well as post-Biblical Jewish literature, the Qur'an, and Inuit culture. Goldman compares and contrasts the treatment of this motif especially in the literature and lore of the ancient Near East, Biblical Israel, and early Islam, at the same time touching on gender issues--the status of women in Middle Eastern societies and the varying constructions of male-female relationships--and the vexed question of "originality" in the narratives of the monotheistic traditions.

Author : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226551937

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Drawing on two decades of research into gay life in North America, Stephen O. Murray examines the emergence of gay and lesbian social life, the creation of lisbigay communities, and the political and social forces of resistance that have mobilized and nurtured a group identity. Murray also considers the extent to which there is a single "modern" homosexuality, the enormous range of gay behaviors, and more.

Author : Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438484208

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Widely known for his probing analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's early work, in this book Nahum Dimitri Chandler references writing from across the whole of Du Bois's long career, while bringing sharp focus on two later texts issued in the immediate aftermath of World War II—Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace and The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part which Africa Has Played in World History. In these texts, "the problem of the color line," which Du Bois had already characterized as the problem not only of the twentieth century, but of the modern epoch as a whole, is further figured as a global problem, as a horizon linking the contemporary conjuncture of the history of modern systems of enslavement with the ongoing impact of modern colonialism and imperialism on the world's possible futures. On this line of thought, Chandler proposes that the name of "Africa" is a theoretical metaphor that enables a hyperbolic re-narrativization of modern historicity. Du Bois thus emerges as an exemplary thinker of history and hope for the world beyond the limit of the present.