Sandor/Sarolta Vay: From passing woman to sexual invert

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Mak, Geertje ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 43249185680     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2004.0030     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. C. Birnbacher, "Ein Fall von konträren Sexualempfindung vor dem Strafgericht," Friedreichsblätter für gerichtliche Medizin 42, no.1 (1891): 2-42, esp. 2.
2. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol.1, Sexual Inversion (London: The University Press, 1900), 94.
3. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York: Bantam Books, 1961), 387-89.
4. Hanna Hacker, "Edelmann und Goldmarie 1890. Zum homophilen Studium einer 'Gräfin in Männerkleidung.'" Die Schwarze Botin 26 (March-May 1985): 16-25.
5. Hacker, Frauen und Freundinnen, 35.
6. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985): 245-96;
7. Gudrun Schwartz, "'Mannweiber' in Männertheorieen," in Frauen suchen ihre Geschichte. Historische Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, ed. Karin Hausen (Munich, Germany: 1983), 62-80;
8. and Martha Vicinus, "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong': The Historical Roots of the Modern Lesbian Identity," in Homosexuality, which Homosexuality? International Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies, ed. Dennis Altman (Amsterdam: Schorer/An Dekker/GMP Publishers, 1989), 215-38.
9. George Chauncey was one of the first to notice that late nineteenth-century cases of "sexual inversion" in women were less about lesbianism than about their masculinity. See George Chauncey Jr., "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance," Salmagundi 58-59 (1982-1983): 114-46.
10. Majorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (New York: Routledge, 1992);
11. Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History (New York: Zone Books,1994), 137-212;
12. and Stefan Hirschauer, Die soziale Konstruktion der Transsexualität. Über die Medizin und den Geschlechtswechsel (Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, 1993). Only recently have more extended studies from the perspective of "masculine women" appeared.
13. Gertrud Lehnert, Wenn Frauen Männerkleider tragen. Geschlecht und Maskerade in Literatur und Geschichte (Munich: DTV, 1997);
14. For the analysis of nineteenth-century medical case histories as narratives, see Mieke Bal, De theorie van vertellen en verhalen: inleiding in de narratologie (Muiderberg, The Netherlands: Coutinho, 1990);
15. and Julia Epstein, Altered Conditions. Disease, Medicine, and Storytelling (New York: Routledge, 1995).
16. For medical context, see, for example, George Canguilhem, Le normal et le pathologique (Paris: P.U.F., 1979);
17. and Michel Foucault, La volonté de savoir. Histoire de la sexualité 1 (Paris: Gallimard, 1976).
18. Emma Donoghue, Passions between Women. British Lesbian Culture, 16681801 (London: Scarlet Press, 1993);
19. Hanna Hacker, Frauen und Freundinnen, 140-58;
20. Geertje Mak, Mannelijke Vrouwen (which has an extensive list of French and German sources and a list of passing women in the nineteenth century);
21. Randolph Trumbach, "London's Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture," in Body Guards, 112-41;
22. Sherry Velasco, The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000);
23. Vicinus, "'They Wonder to Which Sex I Belong'"; Julie Wheelwright, Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness (London: Pandora, 1989).
24. For some late-nineteenth-century newspaper accounts on passing, see Magnus Hirschfeld, Die Transvestiten. Eine Untersuchung über die erotischen Verkleidungstrieb (Berlin: Adler-Verlag, 1912).
25. See, for example, Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990);
26. Claudia Honegger, Die Ordnung der Geschlechter. Die Wissenschaften vom Menschen und das Weib (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1991);
27. and Londa Schiebinger, The Mind has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989).
28. Birnbacher, "Ein Fall," 6
29. FOr more details of this analysis, see Mak, Mannelijke Vrouwen, 214-17.
30. C. Westphal, "Die conträre Sexualempfindung. Symptom eines neuropatischen (psychopatischen) Zustandes," Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 2, no. 1 (1869): 73-108.
31. Foucault, Naissance, 87-105.
32. Westphal, "Die conträre Sexualempfindung," 73.
33. Lorrainne Daston and Katharine Park, "The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature: Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France," in Premodern Sexualities, ed. Louise Fradenburg and Carla Fredccereo (New York: Routledge, 1996): 117-36;
34. Katharine Park, "The Rediscovery of the Clitoris," in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeallity in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Hilman and Carla Mazzio (New York: Routledge, 1997);
35. Valerie Traub, "The (In)significance of 'Lesbian' Desire in Early Modern England," in Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage, ed. Susan Zimmerman (New York: Routledge, 1992), 150-69;
36. Trumbach, "London's Sapphists"; Velasco, Lieutenant Nun; and Wheelwright, Military Maids.
37. Birnbacher, "Ein Fall," 3.
38. Birnbacher, "Ein Fall," 26, 27.
39. and Honegger, Die Ordnung.