Boy Wives And Female Husbands

Author : Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438484112

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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands by Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe Pdf

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 : Will Roscoe,Stephen O. Murray,Marc Epprecht
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438484100

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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands by Will Roscoe,Stephen O. Murray,Marc Epprecht Pdf

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.

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108596046

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Female Husbands by Jen Manion Pdf

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 : 214 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783603343

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Male Daughters, Female Husbands by Professor Ifi Amadiume Pdf

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 : Stephen O. Murray
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226551951

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Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray Pdf

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 : Serena Owusua Dankwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108495905

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Knowing Women by Serena Owusua Dankwa Pdf

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

Author : Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814774687

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Islamic Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe Pdf

The first anthropological collection that reveals patterns of male and female homosexuality in the Muslim World The dramatic impact of Islamic fundamentalism in recent years has skewed our image of Islamic history and culture. Stereotypes depict Islamic societies as economically backward, hyper-patriarchal, and fanatically religious. But in fact, the Islamic world encompasses a great diversity of cultures and a great deal of variation within those cultures in terms of gender roles and sexuality. The first collection on this topic from a historical and anthropological perspective, Homosexuality in the Muslim World reveals that patterns of male and female homosexuality have existed and often flourished within the Islamic world. Indeed, same-sex relations have, until quite recently, been much more tolerated under Islam than in the Christian West. Based on the latest theoretical perspectives in gender studies, feminism, and gay studies, Homosexuality in the Muslim World includes cultural and historical analyses of the entire Islamic world, not just the so-called Middle East. Essays show both age-stratified patterns of homosexuality, as revealed in the erotic and romantic poetry of medieval poets, and gender-based patterns, in which both men and women might, to varying degrees, choose to live as members of the opposite sex. The contributors draw on historical documents, literary texts, ethnographic observation and direct observation by both Muslim and non-Muslim authors to show the considerable diversity of Islamic societies and the existence of tolerated gender and sexual variances.

Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438404318

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The Wiles of Women/The Wiles of Men by Shalom Goldman Pdf

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 : Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438486963

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Gendered Lives by Nadine T. Fernandez,Katie Nelson Pdf

Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book's central themes of globalization and intersectionality. An OER version of this course is freely available thanks to the generous support of SUNY OER Services. Access the book online at https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/.

Author : Melissa Free
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438481548

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Beyond Gold and Diamonds by Melissa Free Pdf

Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the region's mineral wealth to the aftermath of World War I. It focuses on fiction by the colonial-born Olive Schreiner, southern Africa's first literary celebrity, as well as by H. Rider Haggard, Gertrude Page, and John Buchan, its most influential authorial informants, British authors who spent significant time in the region and wrote about it as insiders. Tracing the ways in which generic innovation enabled these writers to negotiate cultural and political concerns through a uniquely British South African lens, Melissa Free argues that British South African literature constitutes a distinct field, one that overlaps with but also exists apart from both a national South African literary tradition and a tradition of South African literature in English. The various genres that British South African novelists introduced—the New Woman novel, the female colonial romance, the Rhodesian settler romance, and the modern spy thriller—anticipated metropolitan literary developments while consolidating Britain's sense of its own dominion in a time of increasing opposition.

Author : Ruth Morgan,Saskia Wieringa
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1770090932

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Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives by Ruth Morgan,Saskia Wieringa Pdf

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Author : Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Homophobia in literature
ISBN : OCLC:988631297

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Boy-wives and Female Husbands by Stephen O. Murray,Will Roscoe Pdf

Author : Nahum Dimitri Chandler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438484204

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Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World by Nahum Dimitri Chandler Pdf

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.

Author : Carol Mason
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438457178

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Oklahomo by Carol Mason Pdf

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950s. By exploring the scandal-filled lives of four Oklahomans, this book demonstrates how unqueering operates in a conservative American context. Carol Mason weaves a story about how homogenizing, antigay ideas evolve from generation to generation so that they achieve particular economic, imperial, racial, and gendered goals. Using engaging and accessible commentary on antigay crusaders (Sally Kern and Anita Bryant) and two queer teachers dismissed from their positions (Billy James Hargis and Bruce Goff), Mason illustrates how the lives of these figures represent paradigmatic moments in conservative confrontations with queers and help us to understand the conflation of terrorism with homosexuality, which dates back to the McCarthy era. “Oklahomo is a wonderful addition to recent queer studies of critical regionalism, rural life, and sexual norms. Via four spot-on case studies, Carol Mason traces a hypnotic history of the US Right that deepens our knowledge of how cultures of terror materialized alongside cultures of sexuality in the American Midwest. Overflowing with acuity, this book is mandatory reading for scholars invested in LGBTQ studies, rural/urban studies, and forgotten tales of modern conservatism.” — Scott Herring, author of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism

Author : Amy Sutherland
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780812978087

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What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage by Amy Sutherland Pdf

While observing trainers of exotic animals, journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used their techniques with the human animals in her own life–specifically her dear husband, Scott? As Sutherland put training principles into action, she noticed that not only did her twelve-year-old marriage improve, but she herself became more optimistic and less judgmental. What started as a goofy experiment had such good results that Sutherland began using the training techniques with all the people in her life, including her mother, her friends, her students, even the clerk at the post office. Full of fun facts, fascinating insights, hilarious anecdotes, and practical tips, What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage reveals the biggest lesson Sutherland learned: The only animal you can truly change is yourself.