Gender Benders, 1782-1920, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Dublin Core
Title
Gender Benders, 1782-1920, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Subject
Identities
Politics, Government, and Law
Science, Medicine, and Health
Description
Primary documents about the lives of persons identified at birth as female, who later lived and sometimes identified as male. Documents reprinted from Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976). Note by Jonathan Ned Katz added March 6, 2019 and revised March 4, 2022: In regard to people in the past, it seems to me now that we best honor them (and our own present desire to understand them) by trying to discover the changing historical terms and concepts by which they understood themselves over their lifetimes as well as the changing historical terms and concepts by which others understood them over time. It now also seems important to ask how all those terms and concepts expressed social judgments and were implicated in the power relations of individuals and classes, social systems, structures, and institutions.
Time Period
1600s-1700s
1800s
1900-1920
Person
Sampson, Deborah
Lobdell, Lucy Ann
Hall, Murray
Edwards Walker, Mary
Stevenson, Edward I.P.
Ellis, Havelock
Katz, Jonathan Ned
Sheridan, Philip
Place
New York
Missouri
Wisconsin
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gender-benders