Africa

Canada

Dr.

Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

epprecht@qsilver.queensu.ca

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

phone: 613-533-6000 ext 74364 (office)
613-547-5424 (home)
fax: 613-533-6298

Lesotho ; Zimbabwe ; South Africa.

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.

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.

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

gender ; sexuality ; homosexuality ; masculinity.