...Lillian Faderman Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ACTING “WOMAN” AND THINKING “MAN” The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts Lillian Faderman In the 1880s, early in her career, the American suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw sported what was at that time a distinctly mannish...

... to negotiate displacement, middle- and upper-class gay men in the homeland (specifically Manila) offer an inverted picture of global-local relations, since the absence of a shared diasporic experience of displacement, (racialized) exclusion, and downward mobility also operates as the absence of any impetus...

... in Greek, mollis in Latin and its Romance derivatives) either because they were inverts or pathics—because they were womanly, or transgendered, and liked being fucked by other men—or because, on the contrary, they were womanizers, because they deviated from masculine...

... ]. (1958) 2006 . We, Too, Must Love . New York : Feminist Press . Meyerowitz Joanne J . 2002 . How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Nealon Christopher . 2000 “ Invert-History: The Ambivalence of Lesbian...

... are they to be obtained? Cromwell raises crucial questions concerning medical conceptions of gender variants, the early “invert” conceptions of Hirschfeld and others, current terminologies in the trans community, and notions of “body,” “sex,” and “gender...

... of the nation’s “racial stock” was in peril as levels of immigration continued to climb; worries about national security wrought by the instability of the Mexican Revolu- tion; and sexological (as well as popular) paranoia about the threat posed by the figures of the “female invert...

... publication, readers balked at the novel’s melodramatic account of what Hall called “the tragical prob- lem of sexual inversion.”4 But the readers who have reacted most adversely to the novel’s dark portrait of inverted life are those whose experience Hall claimed...

... (“fresh,” “unperverted,” and “natural”) are precisely the opposite of those that Ruskin had used twenty years earlier (“polluted,” “perverted,” “unnatural And even though Symonds radically inverts Ruskin’s evaluation of the period, he does not appre- ciably change his characterization of it: both...

.... Freud denied their historical rel- evance, however, to advance an interpretation that differed from Kupffer’s account of Sodoma as a practicing invert. According to Freud, Leonardo’s homosexuality was “ideal” — that is, ideational only — not realized in carnal sexual relations. Of course...

... man,” and “invert,” who has a female brain or mind in a mostly (but not entirely) male body. He (and I use the masculine pronoun because he claims to have lived his life primarily as a man and chose the pseudonym “Earl” for the authorial persona) explains his condition...

... by an inverted gender identity, then they too could infiltrate the government undetected and subvert it from within by perverting “normal” employees. As the report ominously claimed, “One homosex- ual can pollute a government office.”12 The fear that homosexuals could escape detection...

... time’s “negative” visible is inverted action. Within the epistemology of cinema it may well be that we die more than once, perhaps we do indeed survive our deaths. Perhaps dying happens not at the singular end of living, but, if not frequently, more than once. And perhaps this is why we like...

... AND THE POPULAR PRESS 161 individuals—self-identified in the terms available in their day as eonists, trans- vestites, homosexuals, inverts, and hermaphrodites—came to a new sense of who they were and what they might become. B.C. (Before Christine) The concept of medicalized sex change did not depend...

... of three phases. Visitors cut suspended locks of my hair, then shaved my head with clippers and finally with a razor, until I was bald. An inverted forest of roughly twenty-five locks hung from the ceiling. Combined with the shorn remains, this constitutes a site...

... and black selfimages. Behind those images and inverted screens lurks a dark intruder albeit framed by a black (and white) vision of black identity; an imago stalking a little black child through his memories and dreams.4 The text’s own style seizes...

... possess “a sound and fairly muscular physique,” one similar, in fact, to the sexologist Stella Browne’s 1923 description of a female “invert” (Case E) “of the most pronounced physical type,” who was overly fond of “driving” and whose body was “tall, stiff, [and] rather heavily...

... True Acting “Woman” and Thinking “Man”: Balletomania: A Sexual Disorder? The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts 173 -97 315-29 Lunny, Allyson M. Gordon, Angus Heimlich Maneuvers: Freud’s Turning Back: Adolescence...

..., with Germany, which in 1937 created what has paradoxically become the most abiding symbol of gay identity of this era, the pink triangle, whose upended, inverted position was initially an occult symbol of the Antichrist. Thus does modern politics merge with religion, and, as Mosse wrote, his first religion...

... and inclusive. His 114-year history situates the modern reader in shifting identities and frameworks, ranging from inverts to homosexuals, drag queens to drag kings, bisexuals to asexuals, transgender people to cross-dressers, and everyone in between and beyond, whether for one-night hookups or lifelong...