Sexual inversion (sexology)  

"Central polemical texts contributing to this [</nowiki][[Sexual inversion (sexology)|sexual inversion]]<nowiki>]</nowiki] discourse include [[Symonds]]'s ''[[A Problem in Greek Ethics]]'' (1883); and his ''[[A Problem in Modern Ethics]]'' (1891); Havelock Ellis's ''[[Sexual Inversion]]'', originally written with [[Symonds]], published and suppressed in England in 1897, and later to be included as volume 2 of Ellis's ''[[Studies in the Psychology of Sex]]'' (1901); and Edward Carpenter's ''[[Homogenic Love]]'' (1894) and his ''[[The Intermediate Sex]]'' (1908)." --''[[Speaking of Gender]]'' (1989) by [[Elaine Showalter]] |} [[Image:Inversions.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Inversions]]'', the first French gay journal is published between [[1924]] and [[1926]], it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with "[[Outrage aux bonnes mœurs]]". Its full title was ''Inversions ... in [[art]], [[literature]], [[philosophy]] and [[science]]''. [[Sexual inversion (sexology)|Sexual inversion]] was a term used by [[sexologist]]s in the late [[19th]] and early [[20th century]], to refer to [[homosexuality]].]] {{Template}} '''''Sexual inversion''''' is a term used by [[sexologist]]s, primarily in the late [[19th]] and early [[20th century]], to refer to [[homosexuality]]. Sexual inversion was believed to be an inborn reversal of [[gender]] traits: male inverts were, to a greater or lesser degree, inclined to traditionally female pursuits and dress and vice versa. The sexologist [[Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing]] described female sexual inversion as "the masculine soul, heaving in the female bosom". Initially confined to medical texts, the concept of sexual inversion was given wide currency by [[Radclyffe Hall]]'s 1928 [[lesbian fiction|lesbian novel]] ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'', which was written in part to popularize the sexologists' views. Published with a foreword by the sexologist [[Havelock Ellis]], it consistently used the term "invert" to refer to its protagonist, who bore a strong resemblance to one of Krafft-Ebing's case studies. ==See also== *[[Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2]] {{GFDL}}