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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities

3 reviews
Will Roscoe, Stephen O. Murray

Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

An Eye Opening Book
Here is a book with oral histories and folklore tales from ethnographers that went to Africa. The book is an eyeopening one into the sexuality aspect of Africans often challenging theories of sexuality. It is an excellent book to answer to the question of How & Why Does Same Sex Sexual Behavior Varies Cross Culturally? It was writing an essay on this topic that got me to this book, I have ...

Queer Spirits
Will Roscoe

Beacon Press, 1996

A fascinating collection of myths and stories from around the world that offers gay men a key to discovering the myths and heroes of their lives.

The Zuni Man-Woman

2 reviews
Will Roscoe

University of New Mexico Press, 1992

A brilliant, provocative, readable insight into gender.
For this book The Zuni Man-Woman William Roscoe received the 1991 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology; and along with the high academic award, he has written an extremely readable book. For those interested in the impact of the dichotomous world-view of Western society on an individual's role in that society, this ...

THE ZUNI MAN-WOMAN
WILL ROSCOE

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 1991

Living the Spirit (Stonewall Inn Editions)

2 reviews

St. Martin's Griffin, 1988

Living the Spirit-Use for Class
The book has been a useful and valuable tool for my class English 710, Gender and Sexuality in American Indian Literature. Informative and enlightening. Members of numerous tribes are heard from. Resource section allows for further study.

Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America

3 reviews
Will Roscoe

Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

The best book on the topic
By starting with life experiences of some individual male and female berdache, Roscoe literally captivates readers, before carrying us into the comparative, theoretical, analytical second half which is sophisticated but clearly written. Will Roscoe's work on North American berdache/"two spirit" is far and away the most theoretically sophisticated and historically systematic work in a ...

Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

8 reviews
Will Roscoe, Stephen Murray

NYU Press, 1997

A Masterpiece, You Will Love This Book
From the cover to the last page, *Islamic Homosexualities* is packed with information that is really useful to the queer Muslim of today. From "Slave Elites" of the Ottoman Empire to the "Gender-Defined" roles of African Homos, from the "Male Actresses" to the "Pakistani Male Prostitues," the book is truly packed with shocking yet factual information. There is little information about lesbians ...

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love

5 reviews
Will Roscoe

Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004

RITUAL NOTIONS OF ONE FLESH, ONE SPIRIT
A great read for anyone willing to court the notion of a shamanic healing ritual that involves passing spirit from one person to another through nudity and touch to become one flesh before separating into two bodies. This is NOT a gay tantric sex manual. It is a study of Jesus in history, religion, and literature in the light of shamanistic healing. It explores the implications of historical ...

Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of Its Founder

2 reviews
Harry Hay

Beacon Press, 1996

2nd only to Oscar Wilde
Harry Hay is one of the fathers of American gay rights. But this is not essentialist idol-praising. Hay was a big part of the big pre-Stonewall organization, Mattachine Society. He was a strong Communist, back when it was risky to be one. In addition, Hay knows a lot about gender theory and gay history and such. He's a sage. Will Roscoe has written a number of important gay books, ...