[Ads-l] Antedating of "Transvestism"

[Dan Goncharoff]

"Kapitel" can also be translated as "story", also "topic" or "matter".

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 2:38 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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"
> > >
> > >
> > > ----
> > >
> > > 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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