One of the founders of the scientific study of sex, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) led the field with his pioneering objective examinations of homosexuality, tranvestism, and gender identity. "The Homosexuality of Men and Women" was designed to provide a unified, comprehensive description of homosexuality while ridding heterosexuals of gay prejudice and allowing homosexuals to confront their isolation and accept themselves. Opening with a definition and a detailed biological discussion of sexual orientation, including the childhood and adolescent phases, Hirschfeld addresses the physical, mental, and emotional life of homosexuals while explaining the inborn nature of homosexuality and bisexuality. In the second half of the book, Hirschfeld looks at sociology, community life, bonding, roles in society, history, persecution, victimisation, and the law. His documentation of gays in the military and the 'new technology' of his day offers farsighted observations that strongly parallel today's national debates and new developments.
| ||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"...indispensable and unsurpassed...belongs in every library and in the private collection of every aspiring gay or lesbian scholar." -- The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide, Nov-Dec, 2002
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A massive compendium of knowledge,
This review is from: The Homosexuality of Men and Women (Hardcover)
This is a behemoth of a book, very big and very expensive. The average reader will have to get a copy through inter-library loan. This is the first translation into English of a book published around the time of the First World War. It contains an enormous amount of information about homosexuality in past ages and in the world of that period when it was published. It unfortunately was based on the outdated theory of the third sex, in which "real" homosexuals are assumed to fit the fairy stereotype. But one can look past this nonsense to the facts stored in this massive compendium of knowledge. The list of famous homosexuals seems to me to contain a number of dubious entries based on flimsy evidence, and there is only the list of names without any details or explanation. But this is a small part of the book, and any student of this subject cannot do without this work.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
UNDER HOMOSEXUALITY WE UNDERSTAND THE sexual orientation of men toward male persons and of women toward female persons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scientific Humanitarian Committee, Iwan Bloch, Havelock Ellis, New York, Oscar Wilde, Middle Ages, German Empire, Walt Whitman, Miss Th, Urban Documents, Works Consulted, Otto de Joux, Psychopathic Sexuality, South America, Buenos Aires, Dio Cassius, Das Sexualleben, Magnus Hirschfeld, Contemporary Sex Life, Edward Carpenter, Diogenes Laertius, Journal of Sexology, Plato's Symposium, United States, Greek Anthology New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
UNDER HOMOSEXUALITY WE UNDERSTAND THE sexual orientation of men toward male persons and of women toward female persons. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scientific Humanitarian Committee, Iwan Bloch, Havelock Ellis, New York, Oscar Wilde, Middle Ages, German Empire, Walt Whitman, Miss Th, Urban Documents, Works Consulted, Otto de Joux, Psychopathic Sexuality, South America, Buenos Aires, Dio Cassius, Das Sexualleben, Magnus Hirschfeld, Contemporary Sex Life, Edward Carpenter, Diogenes Laertius, Journal of Sexology, Plato's Symposium, United States, Greek Anthology New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
13
books
cite this book:
See all 13 books citing this book
- Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Toward Stonewall: Homosexuality and Society in the Modern Western World by Nicholas C. Edsall on page 97, and Back Matter
- Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb in Back Matter
- Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by Gary P. Cestaro on page 130
- Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film by Gary P. Cestaro on page 129
See all 13 books citing this book
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
