Boy-wives and female husbands
Subtitle: studies in African homosexualities
By: edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.
Contributors: Murray, Stephen O.; Roscoe, Will.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Palgrave; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780312238292
Subjects: Homosexuality -- Africa -- History.; Homosexuality -- Africa -- Public opinion.; Gay men -- Africa -- Identity.; Lesbians -- Africa -- Identity.; Homosexuality in literature.; Homophobia in literature.; Homophobia in anthropology.; Public opinion -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a twenty-five-year-old Kikuyu / Stephen O. Murray; title: Occurrences of contrary-sex among the negro population of Zanzibar (1899) / M. Haberlandt, translated by Brandley Rose; title: Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magai: "homosexuality" on the East African Coast / Deborah P. Amory; title: A 1958 visit to a Dakar boy brothel / Michael Davidson; title: Male lesbians and other queer notions in Huasa / Rudolf P. Gaudio; title: West African Homoeroticism: West African men / Nii Ajen; title: Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921,1911) / Günter Tessmann, translated by Bradley Rose; title: Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1732) / Jean Baptiste Labat, translated by Will Roscoe; title: Same-sex life among a few negro tribes of Angola (1923) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose; title: Homosexuality among the natives of Southwest Africa (1925-26) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose; title: "Good God Almighty, what's this!": homosexual "crime" in early colonial Zimbabwe / Marc Epprecht; title: "When a woman loves a woman" in Lesotho: Love, sex, and the (Western) construction of homophobia / Kendall; title: Sexual politics in contemporary Southern Africa / Stephen O. Murray; title: Woman-woman marriage in Africa / Joseph M. Carrier and Stephen O. Murray; title: Diversity and identity: the challenge of African homosexulities; title: African groups with same-sex patterns; title: Organizations of homosexuality and other social structures in sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen O. Murray.