[Ads-l] Antedating of "Transvestism"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The German title seems to be for an article / monograph and not a
book. The journal might be "Archiv für Kriminal-Anthropologie und
Kriminalistik".

Google translates "Zum Kapitel der Transvestiten" as "To the chapter
of transvestites".

The entry in "The Journal of Mental Science" renders this title as
"Transvestism or Cross-dressing". Examining the nearby entries in "The
Journal of Mental Science" I believe that "Transvestism or
Cross-dressing" is intended to be an English translation.

Garson

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 2:06 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > 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. ]
> >
> >
> > from Proquest database.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 9:11 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject:  Antedating of "Transvestism"
> >
> >
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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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