[Ads-l] Antedating of "Transvestism"

Fri Jan 28 19:06:34 UTC 2022

I think this is an English instance of "transvestism" because the book
title appears to be an English translation of a German title.

Date: January 1913
Periodical: The Journal of Mental Science
Page 119

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3368884
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3368884?urlappend=%3Bseq=130%3Bownerid=9007199271937669-136

[Begin excerpt]
Transvestism or Cross-dressing [Zum Kapitel der Transvestiten]. (Arch.
f. Kriminalanth, 1912.) Näcke.

The impulse to adopt the dress and the ways of the opposite sex
without any necessary change in the direction of the sexual impulse
has been very thoroughly studied by Hirschfeld, who has termed this
condition “transvestism.” Näcke here seeks to supplement Hirschfeld's
results.
[End excerpt]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 1:41 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> ELLIS, HAVELOCK.Alienist and Neurologist (1880-1920); East Bridgewater Vol. 34, Iss. 2,  (May 1, 1913): 157-158
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> "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."
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> ["Hirschfeld" refers to the book Magnus Hirschfeld, Die Transvestiten:  Eine Untersuchung uber den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb, 1910. ]
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> from Proquest database.
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> transvestism (OED 1928)
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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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