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Boy-wives and female husbands : studies of African homosexualities / edited by Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe.

By: Murray, Stephen O
Contributor(s): Roscoe, William
Language: English Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.Description: xxii, 358p. ; 21CM.ISBN: 031221216X
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Bibl.: p.325-351. - Contents: I, Horn of Africa, Sudan and East Africa. "A feeling within me": a 25 year old Kikuyu / S.O. Murray; Occurrences of contrary-sex among the Negro population of Zanzibar (1899) / M. Haberlandt; Mashoga, Mubasha and Mugai: the East African coast / D.P. Amory; II, West Africa. A 1958 visit to a Dakar boy brothel / Michael Davidson; Male lesbians and other queer notions in Hausa / R.P. Gaudio; West African homoeroticism / Nii Ajen; III, Central Africa. Homosexuality among the Negroes of the Cameroon and Pangwe Tale (1921, 1911) / Gunther Tessmann; Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1732) / Jean Baptiste Labat; Same sex life among a few Negro tribes of Angola (1932) / Kurt Falk; IV, Southern Africa. Homosexuality among the natives of Southwest Africa (1925-26) / K. Falk; "Good God Almighty, what's this?": homosexual crime in early colonial Zimbabwe / M. Epprecht; "When a woman loves a woman" in Lesotho / Kendall; Sexual politics in contemporary southern Africa / S.O. Murray; V, Conclusions. woman-woman marriage in Africa / J.M. Carrier, S.O. Murray; Diversity and identity.

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