Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African CityISBN: 978-1-4051-5252-5
Paperback
256 pages
May 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the
Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law
requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of
behavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life
- The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa,
and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamic
world
- Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographic
narrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historical
texts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, and
song-poetry
- Analyzes the social experiences and expressive culture of ‘yan daudu (feminine men in Nigerian Hausaland) in relation to local, national, and global debates over gender and sexuality at the turn of the twenty-first century