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9798339

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-11-20
pubmed:abstractText
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.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-1753
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
89
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
445-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Glandular politics. Experimental biology, clinical medicine, and homosexual emancipation in fin-de-siècle central Europe.
pubmed:affiliation
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, United Kingdom. c.sengoopta@wellcome.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Biography, Historical Article, Portraits, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't