Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities - Hardcover

Answers an urgent need for accurate and balanced work in African sexuality, offering perspectives from fields of anthropology and history, along with extensive evidence from ethnographic and literary sources. Documents same-sex patterns in some 50 societies in every region of Africa, exploring 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, the first nation to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Includes oral histories, folklore, and translations of early ethnographic reports by Europeans. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Will Roscoe is most recently the author of Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America.

Stephen O. Murray's recent book is American Gay. They both live in San Francisco.