TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joyce,Simon
TI  - LGTB Victorians: sexuality and gender in the nineteenth-century archives 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780191949197
AV  - HQ73 
U1  - 306.76 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - LGBT people
KW  - Transgender Victoria
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: COALESCING CONCEPTS -- 1. On or About 1820: Modalities of Lesbian Emergence -- 2. Ulrichs' Riddles -- PART TWO: VICTORIAN SEXOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF EFFEMINACY -- 3. John Addington Symonds and the Problems of Ethical Homosexuality -- 4. Toward an Intermediate Sex: Edward Carpenter's Queer Palimpsests -- PART THREE: GAY MEN/TRANS WOMEN -- 5. Two Women Walk into a Theater Restroom: The Trial of Fanny and Stella -- 6. Bodies in Transition: Trans-Curiosity in Late-Victorian Pornography -- Coda: "And I? May I Say Nothing, My Lord?" -- Works Cited -- Index; Also available in Print and PDF edition
N2  - 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. This book 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
ER  -