[Ads-l] Antedating of "Transvestism"

[Bill Mullins]

ELLIS, HAVELOCK.Alienist and Neurologist (1880-1920); East Bridgewater Vol. 34, Iss. 2,  (May 1, 1913): 157-158

"It is difficult, however, to accept Hirschfeld's term of Transvestism, (Transvestitismus) or cross-dressing, which is not only [jump to next page] unsatisfactory in itself (even from a Teutonic point of view) but by insisting exclusively on inversion of tastes in matters of dress, unduly narrows the phenomenon with which we have to deal."

["Hirschfeld" refers to the book Magnus Hirschfeld, Die Transvestiten:  Eine Untersuchung uber den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb, 1910. ]


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transvestism (OED 1928)

1914 New York Medical Journal 99: 362 in Jonathan Ned Katz Gay/Lesbian Almanac 699  (heading) Transvestism: A Contribution to the Study of the Psychology of Sex.

Fred Shapiro

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