LGBT Victorians

Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Simon Joyce, College of William and Mary) Joyce, Simon (Professor of English, Professor of English

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LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity. 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. 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 reconsiders 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-28
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt472 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198980650

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List of IllustrationsIntroductionPART ONE: COALESCING CONCEPTS1: On or About 1820: Modalities of Lesbian Emergence2: Ulrichs' RiddlesPART TWO: VICTORIAN SEXOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF EFFEMINACY3: John Addington Symonds and the Problems of Ethical Homosexuality4: Toward an Intermediate Sex: Edward Carpenter>'s Queer PalimpsestsPART THREE: GAY MEN/TRANS WOMEN5: Two Women Walk into a Theater Restroom: The Trial of Fanny and Stella6: Bodies in Transition: Trans-Curiosity in Late-Victorian PornographyCoda: "And I? May I Say Nothing, My Lord?"Works CitedIndex

This is a book to be reckoned with, one of the most important to be written in British LGBT or, indeed, Queer history in recent years. Scholars, advocates for trans rights, gender-critical feminists, and culture warriors may not learn much from the Victorians themselves about sexuality and gender, but they would certainly benefit enormously from engaging with this rich, nuanced, and deeply humane study.