LGBT Victorians
Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198980650
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 235x155x15 mm
- Weight 472 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 black and white illustrations 633
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Short description:
LGBT Victorians explores Victorian thought around gender and sexual identity to examine how Victorians considered these identity categories to have produced and shaped each other, highlighting a range of individuals including Anne Lister, the defendants in the 1870s "Fanny and Stella" trial, Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, and John Addington Symonds.
MoreLong description:
LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity.
We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those
for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition.
LGBT Victorians reconsiders the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period.
This is a book to be reckoned with, one of the most important to be written in British LGBT or, indeed, Queer history in recent years. Scholars, advocates for trans rights, gender-critical feminists, and culture warriors may not learn much from the Victorians themselves about sexuality and gender, but they would certainly benefit enormously from engaging with this rich, nuanced, and deeply humane study.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
PART ONE: COALESCING CONCEPTS
On or About 1820: Modalities of Lesbian Emergence
Ulrichs' Riddles
PART TWO: VICTORIAN SEXOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF EFFEMINACY
John Addington Symonds and the Problems of Ethical Homosexuality
Toward an Intermediate Sex: Edward Carpenter’s Queer Palimpsests
PART THREE: GAY MEN/TRANS WOMEN
Two Women Walk into a Theater Restroom: The Trial of Fanny and Stella
Bodies in Transition: Trans-Curiosity in Late-Victorian Pornography
Coda: "And I? May I Say Nothing, My Lord?"
Works Cited
Index
