Women's Studies 2160A/B Lecture 1: Boston Marriages to Pulp Fictions

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2160A/B
• Professor: Katherine M Mc Kenna

Document Summary

How to do the history of women in same sex relations. His purpose was to describe two equal but different forms of sexual attraction, homosexual and heterosexual, to match new ideas about human sexuality that were being solidified by the medical and psychiatric and legal bodies of the period. Creating heterosexual and homosexual (1885: richard von krafft ebbing, edward caron, henry labouchere, sigmund freud. You can find many instances in history and across culture of women loving women and men loving men. But just as the opposite sex behaviours were not understood in terms of heterosexuality same sex behaviours were not understood as homosexual or gay. Certain behaviours were classified as sins and sometimes crimes. Michel foucault said that mid to late 19th century was a point at which medical and judicial understand reimaged particular sexual behaviours as being specific to certain people. Homosexuality was not the only object of study for medical sciences.