Joyce Simon (Professor Of English Professor Of English College Of William And Mary)
Joyce Simon (Professor Of English Professor Of English College Of William And Mary) - Lgbt Victorians Sexuality And Gender In The Nineteenth - Century Archives - Hardcover
Joyce Simon (Professor Of English Professor Of English College Of William And Mary) - Lgbt Victorians Sexuality And Gender In The Nineteenth - Century Archives - Hardcover
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Description: It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century yet the term " Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re - visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self - definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians gay men bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self - identification. Re - examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present Lgbtq+ coalition. LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister and the defendants in the " Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s) key thinkers and activists (including Karl - Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter) and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
Title: Lgbt Victorians Sexuality And Gender In The Nineteenth - Century Archives
Author(s): Joyce Simon (Professor Of English Professor Of English College Of William And Mary)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192858399
Pages: 296 Pages, 12 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/25/2022
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups
Description: It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century yet the term " Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians argues for re - visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self - definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians gay men bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self - identification. Re - examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present Lgbtq+ coalition. LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister and the defendants in the " Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s) key thinkers and activists (including Karl - Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter) and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
Title: Lgbt Victorians Sexuality And Gender In The Nineteenth - Century Archives
Author(s): Joyce Simon (Professor Of English Professor Of English College Of William And Mary)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192858399
Pages: 296 Pages, 12 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 11/25/2022
Category: Gender Studies, Gender Groups
