- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226530437
- eISBN:
- 9780226304458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226304458.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
In contrast with other gay and lesbian activist-researchers in the pre-Stonewall era, Painter was able to establish a relationship with a recognized sex researcher who fully supported his work. All ...
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In contrast with other gay and lesbian activist-researchers in the pre-Stonewall era, Painter was able to establish a relationship with a recognized sex researcher who fully supported his work. All of the activist-researchers shared the objective of securing homosexual rights through the production of research that revealed the experiences and struggles of an oppressed people. These activists were committed to the belief that such knowledge would demystify misconceptions, counter prejudice and stigmatization, and ultimately lead to rudimentary forms of social justice. The central tenet in Kinsey's sexual worldview was the assumption that all living creatures are composed of a wide range of individual differences. Regarding human sexuality, this implied that sexual capacity could be expressed within continua ranging from celibacy to promiscuity and from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. Painter's manuscript proved to be a source of contention. Painter explored how he could complement his continued work on the manuscript with Kinsey's research.Less
In contrast with other gay and lesbian activist-researchers in the pre-Stonewall era, Painter was able to establish a relationship with a recognized sex researcher who fully supported his work. All of the activist-researchers shared the objective of securing homosexual rights through the production of research that revealed the experiences and struggles of an oppressed people. These activists were committed to the belief that such knowledge would demystify misconceptions, counter prejudice and stigmatization, and ultimately lead to rudimentary forms of social justice. The central tenet in Kinsey's sexual worldview was the assumption that all living creatures are composed of a wide range of individual differences. Regarding human sexuality, this implied that sexual capacity could be expressed within continua ranging from celibacy to promiscuity and from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. Painter's manuscript proved to be a source of contention. Painter explored how he could complement his continued work on the manuscript with Kinsey's research.
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226530437
- eISBN:
- 9780226304458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226304458.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The sex variants study reflected a strong commitment on the part of both homosexuals and scientific investigators to carry out an investigation of homosexuality. This chapter examines the objectives ...
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The sex variants study reflected a strong commitment on the part of both homosexuals and scientific investigators to carry out an investigation of homosexuality. This chapter examines the objectives sought by each group in this study and explores the nature of the relationship between them. It begins with an overview of the background and results of the sex variants study and then considers the broader context of this investigation by discussing how it is situated within the emergence of a grassroots community concern for homosexual rights and the medicalization of homosexuality. For advocates of homosexual rights, the objective was for gay men and lesbians to be able to live their lives in a sexually pluralist society; that is, without having to conform to the social conventions of the heterosexual majority. The objective of effecting social change, reflected in the work of the research activists and expressed by some of the research participants, was also manifested in a case of political activism.Less
The sex variants study reflected a strong commitment on the part of both homosexuals and scientific investigators to carry out an investigation of homosexuality. This chapter examines the objectives sought by each group in this study and explores the nature of the relationship between them. It begins with an overview of the background and results of the sex variants study and then considers the broader context of this investigation by discussing how it is situated within the emergence of a grassroots community concern for homosexual rights and the medicalization of homosexuality. For advocates of homosexual rights, the objective was for gay men and lesbians to be able to live their lives in a sexually pluralist society; that is, without having to conform to the social conventions of the heterosexual majority. The objective of effecting social change, reflected in the work of the research activists and expressed by some of the research participants, was also manifested in a case of political activism.
Ralph M. Leck
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040009
- eISBN:
- 9780252098185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040009.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores the invention of new nomenclatures for sexual minorities in the works of Ulrichs and Karl Kertbeny (1824–1882). Due to a personal tragedy—a close friend, who was a homosexual, ...
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This chapter explores the invention of new nomenclatures for sexual minorities in the works of Ulrichs and Karl Kertbeny (1824–1882). Due to a personal tragedy—a close friend, who was a homosexual, committed suicide—Kertbeny decided to join Ulrichs' fight for homosexual rights. Kertbeny embraced Ulrichs' contention that, in order for sexual minorities to gain equal rights and social acceptance, dominant stigmatizing classificatory idioms must be replaced by new scientific terminology. Before they appeared in Kertbeny's anti-Prussian essays of 1869, the words heterosexuality and homosexuality did not exist. These words are used today in the absence of the knowledge that their invention signaled a post-Prussian liberal sexual politics of inclusion and equal rights.Less
This chapter explores the invention of new nomenclatures for sexual minorities in the works of Ulrichs and Karl Kertbeny (1824–1882). Due to a personal tragedy—a close friend, who was a homosexual, committed suicide—Kertbeny decided to join Ulrichs' fight for homosexual rights. Kertbeny embraced Ulrichs' contention that, in order for sexual minorities to gain equal rights and social acceptance, dominant stigmatizing classificatory idioms must be replaced by new scientific terminology. Before they appeared in Kertbeny's anti-Prussian essays of 1869, the words heterosexuality and homosexuality did not exist. These words are used today in the absence of the knowledge that their invention signaled a post-Prussian liberal sexual politics of inclusion and equal rights.
Mary P. Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807830628
- eISBN:
- 9781469606057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807876688_ryan.9
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual ...
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This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual freedom and homosexual rights posed a public challenge to the conventional organization of the relations of the sexes.Less
This chapter discusses the emergence and historical course of a second wave of feminist mass movement that swept through American politics and culture. It also describes how movements for sexual freedom and homosexual rights posed a public challenge to the conventional organization of the relations of the sexes.
Ralph M. Leck
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040009
- eISBN:
- 9780252098185
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040009.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter continues the narrative focus on the Ulrichs–Kertbeny comradeship. Ulrichs' and Kertbeny's campaign for homosexual rights is interpreted as a cultural battle over the civic meaning of ...
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This chapter continues the narrative focus on the Ulrichs–Kertbeny comradeship. Ulrichs' and Kertbeny's campaign for homosexual rights is interpreted as a cultural battle over the civic meaning of truth-claims about nature. Ulrichs based his demand for homosexual rights on the moral authority of nature. In contrast to Victorian amatory codes deriding homosexuality, Ulrichs insisted that there is no such thing as an unnatural love. Kertbeny savaged this logic claiming that references to nature had no place in the political fight for sexual equality. He eventually broke his ties with Ulrichs due to their insoluble disagreement about the strategic function of natural discourses in a post-Prussian politics. Despite their falling out, Ulrichs and Kertbeny both believed that the purpose of sexual science was to inform citizens of the existence of sexual variance.Less
This chapter continues the narrative focus on the Ulrichs–Kertbeny comradeship. Ulrichs' and Kertbeny's campaign for homosexual rights is interpreted as a cultural battle over the civic meaning of truth-claims about nature. Ulrichs based his demand for homosexual rights on the moral authority of nature. In contrast to Victorian amatory codes deriding homosexuality, Ulrichs insisted that there is no such thing as an unnatural love. Kertbeny savaged this logic claiming that references to nature had no place in the political fight for sexual equality. He eventually broke his ties with Ulrichs due to their insoluble disagreement about the strategic function of natural discourses in a post-Prussian politics. Despite their falling out, Ulrichs and Kertbeny both believed that the purpose of sexual science was to inform citizens of the existence of sexual variance.
Henry L. Minton
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226530437
- eISBN:
- 9780226304458
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226304458.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of ...
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The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. This book looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. It traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in challenging the illness model in the 1970s. By examining archival sources and unpublished manuscripts, the book reveals the substantial accomplishments made by key researchers and relates their life stories. It also considers the contributions of mainstream sexologists such as Alfred C. Kinsey and Evelyn Hooker, who supported the cause of homosexual rights through the advancement of scientific knowledge. By uncovering this hidden chapter in the story of gay liberation, this book makes an important contribution to both the history of science and the history of sexuality.Less
The struggle to remove the stigma of sickness surrounding same-sex love has a long history. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its diagnostic classification of mental illness, but the groundwork for this pivotal decision was laid decades earlier. This book looks back at the struggle of the American gay and lesbian activists who chose scientific research as a path for advancing homosexual rights. It traces the history of gay and lesbian emancipatory research from its early beginnings in the late nineteenth century to its role in challenging the illness model in the 1970s. By examining archival sources and unpublished manuscripts, the book reveals the substantial accomplishments made by key researchers and relates their life stories. It also considers the contributions of mainstream sexologists such as Alfred C. Kinsey and Evelyn Hooker, who supported the cause of homosexual rights through the advancement of scientific knowledge. By uncovering this hidden chapter in the story of gay liberation, this book makes an important contribution to both the history of science and the history of sexuality.
Simone de Beauvoir
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039003
- eISBN:
- 9780252097171
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039003.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more ...
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By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more familiar writings. Spanning the author's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including the famous 1972 announcement of a “conversion to feminism” after decades of activism on behalf of women. The book documents and contextualizes the author's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the book provides new insights into the author's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.Less
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for the author's more familiar writings. Spanning the author's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including the famous 1972 announcement of a “conversion to feminism” after decades of activism on behalf of women. The book documents and contextualizes the author's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the book provides new insights into the author's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
