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- Boy-wives and female husbands : studies in African homosexualities / by Murray, Stephen O.(CARDINAL)729022; Roscoe, Will.(CARDINAL)767798;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-351) and index."A Feeling within Me": Kamau, a twenty-five-year-old Kikuyu / Stephen O. Murray -- Occurrences of contrary-sex among the negro population of Zanzibar (1899) / M. Haberlandt, translated by Brandley Rose -- Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magai: "homosexuality" on the East African Coast / Deborah P. Amory -- A 1958 visit to a Dakar boy brothel / Michael Davidson -- Male lesbians and other queer notions in Huasa / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- West African Homoeroticism: West African men / Nii Ajen -- Homosexuality among the Negroes of Cameroon and a Pangwe Tale (1921,1911) / Günter Tessmann, translated by Bradley Rose -- Ganga-Ya-Chibanda (1732) / Jean Baptiste Labat, translated by Will Roscoe -- Same-sex life among a few negro tribes of Angola (1923) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose -- Homosexuality among the natives of Southwest Africa (1925-26) / Kurt Falk, translated by Bradley Rose -- "Good God Almighty, what's this!": homosexual "crime" in early colonial Zimbabwe / Marc Epprecht -- "When a woman loves a woman" in Lesotho: Love, sex, and the (Western) construction of homophobia / Kendall -- Sexual politics in contemporary Southern Africa / Stephen O. Murray -- Woman-woman marriage in Africa / Joseph M. Carrier and Stephen O. Murray -- Diversity and identity: the challenge of African homosexulities -- African groups with same-sex patterns -- Organizations of homosexuality and other social structures in sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen O. Murray."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. An invaluable resource for everyone interested in the continent's history and culture, Boy-Wives and Female Husbands reveals the denials of African homosexualities for what they are - prejudice and willful ignorance."--BOOK JACKET.- Subjects: Homosexuality; Homosexuality; Gay men; Lesbians; Homosexuality in literature.; Homophobia in literature.; Homophobia in anthropology.; Public opinion; Homosexuality.; Gay men.; Lesbians.;
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- Less than human : why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others / by Smith, David Livingstone,1953-(CARDINAL)779597;
MARCIVE 5/02/11Preface: Creatures of a kind somewhat inferior -- Less than human -- Steps toward a theory of dehumanization -- Caliban's children -- The rhetoric of enmity -- Learning from genocide -- Race -- The cruel animal -- Ambivalence and transgression -- Questions for a theory of dehumanization.A revelatory look at why we dehumanize each other, with stunning examples from world history as well as today's headlines. "Brute." "Lice." "Vermin." "Dog." These and other monikers are constantly in use to refer to other humans--for political, religious, ethnic, or sexist reasons. Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human. This tendency has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and the slave trade possible, and yet we still find it in phenomena such as xenophobia, homophobia, military propaganda, and racism. This book draws on a mix of history, psychology, biology, anthropology and philosophy to document the pervasiveness of dehumanization, describe its forms, and explain why we so often resort to it. Psychologist David Livingstone Smith posits that this behavior is rooted in human nature, but gives us hope in also showing us that change is possible.--From publisher description.- Subjects: Humanity; Social isolation.; Marginality, Social.; Social status.;
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