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Gender Roles

In Azande males who are unmarried and between the ages of 20-35.The chiefs make sure they keep the time and peace.They work closely with the military service when inquiring a young men. The actually term for these young men is boy-wives. The boys acted as wives. They have wifely duties. They dont cook. They go and get food. They go to bed with these men. They perform sexual acts for the men who are in the military and need company. This only happens when they are in the military aspects. This is a tradition of Azande men. They don't discuss what happens with men. They also don't penetrate when having intercourse. Azande boy wives are essential to Azande men who are fighting at war.

Azande women were left after the men went to the militarty. There are reports in Sapphistries that in this case wives controlled the produce from the plots. In other reports from antropologists women were only "considered" or their contributions and Azande was known as "hoe cultivators".

Relationships Among young women

In the book sapphistries it was reported in the 1930's that "sex starved women wives turned to one another"(Rupp 55). Meaning in the early years women were having relations with other women to pleasure themselves. Same-sex relations between women was seen as a minor defense in Buddism(Rupp 56).

Azande women weren't women to put themselves out there to flirt with men. According to Schildkrout Azande women are shy and when aproached by European men they would run in the house.

References

Homosexuality in African History." Rainbow Sudan, Sudan Magazine , 10 May 2014, rainbowsudan.wordpress.com/tag/the-azande-plural-of-zande-in-the-zande-language-are-a-ethnic-group-of-north-central-africa/. Accessed 27 Nov. 2018.

Rupp, Leila. Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women. New York, New York University Press, 2009, pp. 23-56.

Lewin, Ellen, editor. Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, 2006, pp. 67-68.

Schildkrout, Enid. (1999). Gender and Sexuality in Mangbetu Art. 205.