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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.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Jen Manion |
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: |
Release |
: 2020-03-18 |
File |
: 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108596046 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Professor Ifi Amadiume |
Publisher |
: Zed Books Ltd. |
Release |
: 2015-03-12 |
File |
: 248 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781783603336 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Stephen O. Murray |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Release |
: 2021-04-01 |
File |
: 283 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781438484112 |
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The author examines the impact of colonialism and the cash economy on the Nandi, a semi-pastoral and patrilineal people of western Kenya, emphasizing changes in women's and men's economic roles and their respective relations to property and to each other. Since the sex roles associated with production and property relations are linked to sex roles in other areas - in the marriage system, husband-wife relations, kinship, cultural ideals of male and female, ritual relations, participation in community affairs - these areas are also analyzed. The author asks whether the changes in Nandi society have been favorable or unfavorable to women. Has their economic position improved or declined as a result of colonialism and socioeconomic change? Has sexual stratification increased or decreased? How have different categories of women - wives, widows, never-married women, participants in woman-woman marriages - been differently affected by changed circumstances? Although most of the book is ethnographic in nature, providing a detailed account of Nandi inter-gender roles in the context of economic history and at the processes that have induced changes in the respective roles of men and women.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Regina Smith Oboler |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Release |
: 1985 |
File |
: 376 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804712247 |
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Genre |
: Islam |
Author |
: Friedrich Max Müller |
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: |
Release |
: 1885 |
File |
: 520 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951002459569A |
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: James Hogg |
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: |
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: 1877 |
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: 636 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015067008683 |
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Genre |
: Businesswomen |
Author |
: Rik Donckels |
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: |
Release |
: 1986 |
File |
: 112 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105038226143 |
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Genre |
: Electronic journals |
Author |
: William Makepeace Thackeray |
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: |
Release |
: 1889 |
File |
: 728 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015082372635 |
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: |
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: 1874 |
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: 584 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433081655924 |
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: 1881 |
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: 852 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105119140445 |