1 / 17

Sexual Minorities

The concept of homosexuality during the 19th century - Group 1. Sexual Minorities. 1. The Development in Europe. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825-1895 Kraft-Ebbing’s Psychopathia Sexualis 1892 Magnus Hirschfeld’s Scientific Humanitarian Committe 1897-1933

ila-love
Download Presentation

Sexual Minorities

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. The concept of homosexuality during the 19th century - Group 1 Sexual Minorities 1

  2. The Development in Europe • Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1825-1895 • Kraft-Ebbing’s Psychopathia Sexualis 1892 • Magnus Hirschfeld’s Scientific Humanitarian Committe 1897-1933 • Elisar von Kupffer wanted to broaden the public perspective of homosexuality 2

  3. Psychology and Criminology • Congenital • A symptom of ”other” psychopathic behavior • Degeneracy theory 1870s and 1980s • “The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species” - Foucault • 1973 DSM-II no longer a diagnosis 3

  4. Germany • The emancipation movement 1890-1934 • Paragraph 175 • Nazi Germany 1929-1945 4

  5. Great Britain • 1836 The last execution • 1921 Attempt to criminalize lesbianism • 1895 Oscar Wilde • “The Well of loneliness” by Radclyffe-Hall 5

  6. Decriminalization • 1791 France (first West European country) • 1811 Netherlands • 1944 Sweden • 1967 England and Wales • 1968 East Germany • 1969 West Germany 6

  7. The American development 7

  8. Pre-Civil War • Rural towns • Small population • Importance of the Church • Homosexuality = sin 8

  9. Criminalization • Punishable by death • Thomas Jefferson • Repeal 9

  10. First american subculture 10

  11. Decriminalization • Illinois 1961 • […] • Alabama, Kansas, the south… 2003 • Don’t ask, don’t tell 11

  12. Rictor Norton • Rictor Norton was born in 1945 in New York • He wrote his thesis on homosexual themes in English renaissance literature and several books focusing on the LGBT issues • He is a supporter of the essentalism theory 12

  13. The essentialism homosexual theory • This theory supports that sexual orientation reflects a reality that can’t be changed • This theory goes against the social construction of sexual orientation • The sexual orientation of a person is the essence of who the person really is • To summarize, the sexual orientation is pre-determined and can’t be a choice 13

  14. The Myth of the modern homosexual: queer history and the search for cultural unity • Norton tries to prove that homosexuality was not invented in the modern West time • Norton supports the autonomy of homosexual culture and identities • Norton wants to show that homosexuals played a part in history and that it was revised to be more conform with a heterosexual vision 14

  15. Jonathan Ned Katz • Born in 1938 • American historian specialized on human sexuality • Same-sex attractions and changes in the social organisation of sexuality over time. • Constructivism theory: the categories with which we describe and define human sexuality are historically and culturally specific = “constructions”

  16. « The Invention of Heterosexuality  » (1995) • Translated and published in Brazil, Italy, France, Spain. • Cited by U.S. Supreme Court in majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, June 2003. • JNK seeks to prove «  that “heterosexuality” as we conceive of it today is not a fixed, absolute state, and that the fundamental binary of homo vs. hetero, upon which our current culture so heavily relies, is similarly arbitrary.  »

  17. Demonstrates that sexuality is constructed throughout history. • Critic of scholars and activists, working on the history of the homosexuality => marginalization of gay people • « We also need works that question the idea of a sex margin and sex center » (JNK)

More Related