TY - BOOK ID - 134556877 TI - Boy-wives and female husbands : studies of African homosexualities AU - Murray, Stephen O. AU - Roscoe, Will PY - 1998 SN - 031221216X PB - New York St. Martin's Press DB - UniCat KW - Gay men KW - Homophobia in anthropology KW - Homophobia in literature KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Homosexuality KW - Lesbians KW - Public opinion KW - Identity KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134556877 AB - Historians, anthropologists, and many contemporary Africans alike have denied or overlooked African same-sex patterns or claimed that such patterns were introduced by Europeans. Among African Americans questions surrounding sexuality and gender in traditional African societies have become especially contentious. In fact, same-sex love was and is widespread in Africa. Boy-Wives and Female Husbands documents same-sex patterns in some fifty societies, in every region of the continent. 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 recent developments in South Africa, where lesbians and gays successfully made that nation the first in the world to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Book jacket) ER -