Glandular Politics
Experimental Biology, Clinical Medicine, and Homosexual Emancipation in Fin-de-Siecle Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7824463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chandak Sengoopta (0000-0001-5315-7878, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 445-473 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/384073 |
| PMID | 9798339 |
| OpenAlex | W2001565933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Focusing on the work of the physiologist Eugen Steinach and the clinician and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, this essay explores the complex interplay of experimental biology and medical discourse in the construction of a male homosexual identity in early twentieth-century Central Europe. Hirschfeld's collaboration with Steinach, the essay demonstrates, was not simply an instance of the imposition of a biomedical model of sexuality on the homosexual community by a hegemonic medical profession. Hirschfeld, a physician who was also a leader of the German movement for homosexual emancipation, used Steinach's theory to anchor a new biological model of homosexuality, claiming that male homosexuals were neither diseased nor depraved but formed a distinct, autonomous group of organically feminized men. The redefinition of homosexuality resulting from Steinach's and Hirschfeld's research, the essay argues, was not related exclusively to the specific politics of homosexual emancipation but also to more general debates, anxieties, and contestations over the cultural meanings of masculinity and femininity
Aesthetics · Emancipation · Femininity · Fin de siecle · German · Hegemony · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Humanities · Identity (music · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Psychology
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Intersexe et transsexualités
Homophobic Labeling in the Process of Identity Construction
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Albert Moll’s Ambivalence about Homosexuality and His Marginalization as a Sexual Pioneer
The potency of the butterfly
Sorting sex, controlling sex
The SPSSI Task Force on Sexual Orientation, the Nature of Sex, and the Contours of Activist Science
Versemaking and lovemaking—W. B. Yeats' “strange second puberty”
Death Wish
Hard Science
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |