History 2185 Lecture Notes - Nuclear Family, Hypersexuality, Penis Envy
15 Feb 2013
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Rise of sexology, psychiatrists, and the notion of deviance. The perception was that male-female sex was a natural human behaviour and until the late 19th century there was no serious academic analysis because it wasn"t something that needed labelling. This can be seen in their discussion about homo/heterosexuality and their discussions of women. Homosexuality and heterosexuality were categories created by sexologists and this labelling was a modern invention to talk about something that had always been and it showed their want to deconstruct them. In the late 19th century the focus was on sexual behaviour when it came to homosexuality and not whether they were breaking gender roles which was the focus before. In 1868 the terms were coined but the earliest use of the word in the us was in 1892 and this was because the. German scientists were visiting or living in america and their works were being translated.
