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Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes
Author	Magnus Hirschfeld
Original title	Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes
Working title	The Homosexuality of Men and Women
Translator	Michael Lombardi-Nash
Language	German; English
Series	Handbuch der Gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen (Volume 3)
Subject	Homosexuality
Publisher	Louis Marcus
Publication date	1914
Publication place	Berlin, Germany
Pages	1067
OCLC	1390797237

Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes is a classic 1914 book on homosexuality in men and women that was written by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.^[1]^[2] A second edition was published in 1920.^[3] Hirschfeld was himself gay and an occasional crossdresser, known by other Berlin crossdressers as "Aunt Magnesia".^[4]^[5] The book was part of the series Handbuch der Gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen and was the third volume of this series.^[2] Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes was not translated until 2000, under the title The Homosexuality of Men and Women by Michael Lombardi-Nash.^[1]^[6] It has been said that the book was the most significant and authoritative text on homosexuality of its time.^[1] The book has often been overlooked in the English-speaking academia.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bullough, Vern L. (2003). "Magnus Hirschfeld, an often overlooked pioneer". Sexuality and Culture. 7 (1): 62–72. doi:10.1007/s12119-003-1008-4. ISSN 1095-5143. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the more influential pioneers in the study of human sexuality. Looking back, he can be seen as part of a triumvirate of path breaking physician sexologists in the early twentieth century, the other two being Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). For most of the last half of the twentieth century, however, Hirschfeld was more or less ignored in the English speaking world, despite the fact that two of his works, Die Transvestiten (1910) and Die Homosexualitgit des Mannes und des Weibes (1914), were the most significant and authoritative works written on the subjects before Kinsey and his data and are still of importance to the current generation of researchers. It has only been within the past fifteen years that these two works have finally been translated into English and are must reads for anyone doing research into almost any area of sex and gender.
^ ^a ^b Hirschfeld, M. (1914). Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes. Handbuch der gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen (in German). L. Marcus. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
^ Hirschfeld, M. (1920). Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes (in German). L. Marcus. p. 3. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
^ Vicente, Marta V (20 October 2021). "The Medicalization of the Transsexual: Patient-Physician Narratives in the First Half of the Twentieth Century". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 76 (4): 392–416. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrab037. ISSN 0022-5045. PMID 34553224.
^ Gherovici, P. (2011). Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 7(1), 3–18. https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gherovici_psychoanalysis_needs_a_sex_change-1.pdf "The term transvestite was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910 to describe those who occasionally wear clothes of the ‘other’ sex. Hirschfeld, a passionate sex reformer and an activist, struggled for the legalisation of homosexuality. He was also an occasional cross-dresser himself and a central political figure in Germany’s incipient field of sexology. Hirschfeld developed a theory of sexual intermediaries, contending that the existence of two opposite sexes was an oversimplification and that one could observe many varieties of intermediates. A pioneer advocate for transgender people, he argued that transgenderism could not be reduced either to homosexuality, fetishism, or to any form of pathology."
^ Hirschfeld, M. (2000) [1914]. Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes [The Homosexuality of Men and Women]. G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Translated by Lombardi-Nash, Michael. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-57392-705-5. Retrieved 11 June 2024.