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Mailing Address Department of History Queens University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada

Phone/Fax Number(s) phone: 613-533-6000 ext 74364 (office) 613-547-5424 (home) fax: 613-533-6298

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Countries of Specialization Lesotho ; Zimbabwe ; South Africa.

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Research Interests Marc Epprecht does research into the history of GENDER and SEXUALITY with a focus on SOUTHERN AFRICA, particularly LESOTHO and ZIMBABWE. Recent and proposed work includes histories of MASCULINITY and HOMOSEXUALITY in SOUTH AFRICA. A graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, he has taught at the University of Alberta, the U. of Zimbabwe, and Trent U. in Canada.

Teaching Interests He currently teaches in the History Department as well as for the Development Studies Programme at Queen's University. He was a fellow of the South-South Exchange Programme for Research in the History of Development (SEPHIS) and is currently active in the Canadian Association of African Studies. Other activities include pro-feminist men's work and anti-globalisation activism in the community outside the academe. As well, he helps to raise three kids with his partner Allison Goebel (Women's Studies and Environmental Studies at Queen's), and tries to improve his languages.

Publications * Some publications/quelques publications `This matter of women is getting very bad' _Gender, development and politics in colonial Lesotho, 1870-1965_. Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal Press (2000) The 1907 Commission of Enquiry into 'Unnatural Vice' in South Africa: A Neglected Source for Understanding Tolerance For Discreet Homosexual Behaviour in Contemporary Southern African Societies, International Journal of African Historical Studies. (forthcoming 2001) Une critique "beachienne" de la littérature anglaise récente portant sur le genre et la sexualité en Afrique subsaharienne, History in Africa (forthcoming 2001) Confronting masculinity at the University of Zimbabwe, in Blye Frank and Kevin Davison (eds) _Masculinity and Schooling_. Halifax: Fernwood (forthcoming) Pro-feminist teaching strategies in an African context, "Debates and Commentary," Canadian Journal of African Studies (forthcoming) Gender and Feminisms in African Studies, SAFERE (Southern Africa Feminist Review) 5/1 (forthcoming, 2001) Women, Gender, and Development in Colonial Lesotho, Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa. (2000) The Gay Rights Movement in Southern Africa, Canadian Journal of Development Studies (forthcoming 2001) Premodern and early colonial Africa, in G.E. Haggerty (ed) _The Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures_. NY: Garland Press, 2000 `Good God Almighty, what's this!': homosexual "crime" in early colonial Zimbabwe, in Steven Murray and Will Roscoe (eds) _Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities_. New York: St. Martin's Press (1998): 197-220 The Gay Oral History Project: Black empowerment, human rights, and the research process, History in Africa. 26 (1999): 25-41 The `unsaying' of homosexuality among indigenous black Zimbabweans: mapping a blindspot in an African masculinity, Journal of Southern African Studies. 24/4 (Dec. 1998): 631-51 Uncovering Masculinity in Southern African History, Review of Southern African Studies. 2/1 (Feb. 1998): 117-142 Investing in Amnesia, or, Fantasy and Forgetfulness in the World Bank Approach to Health Care Reform in sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Developing Areas. 31/3 (April 1997): 337-356 Gender and History in Southern Africa: A Lesotho `Metanarrative' Canadian Journal of African Studies. 30/2 (1996): 183-213 History, Culture, and Homophobia" Southern Africa Political Economy Monthly. 9/6 (1996): 33-8 Women's `Conservatism' and the Politics of Gender in Colonial Lesotho, Journal of African History. 36/1 (April 1995): 29-56 With Allison Goebel, "Women and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Testing the World Bank and WID Models with a Lesotho Case Study, African Studies Review. 38/1 (April 1995): 1-23 Is Socialist Feminism Passé? Rethinking Marxism. 7/4 (Winter 1994): 138-46 The Mfecane as Teaching Aid: History, Politics, and Pedagogy in Southern Africa, Journal of Historical Sociology. 7/2 (June 1994): 113-30 Domesticity and Piety in Colonial Lesotho: The Private Politics of Basotho Women's Pious Associations, Journal of Southern African Studies. 19/2 (June 1993): 202-21

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