Difference between revisions of "History of the Term "Heterosexual""
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Revision as of 15:56, 4 March 2010
A chronology of the term heterosexual
1868, May 6: Kertbeny: "Homosexual," "Heterosexual"
1880: Jäger: "Heterosexual"
1889: Krafft-Ebing: "Heterosexual"
1892, May: Kiernan: "Heterosexual," "Homosexual"
1923, June 24: New York Times: "homosexual," "heterosexual"
See also:
History of the Term "Homosexual"
History of the Term "Lesbian"
Questions
Why does the history of the term "heterosexual" matter? Does it?
In The Invention of Heterosexuality, Jonathan Ned Katz argues that the invention and distribution of the terms "heterosexual' and "homosexual" caught on in the early 20th century because they were well equipped to express and further a middle-class supported fundamental change in the social-historical organization of sexual behavior, desire, and identity. This was the change from a fundamentally procreative order to a sex-gender system organized around male-female sexual pleasure, gender propriety, and a married man and woman. He argues that the distribution of the terms both reflected and helped to usher in and consolidate the 20th-century system of heterosexual supremacy and homosexual domination that was seriously challenged by the rebirth of the feminist movement in the 1960s, and the gay and lesbian movements after 1969. What do you think of that argument?
