Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Lesbian" in English language version.
The equivocal grammatical status of "lesbian," as both noun and adjective, captures the historical difficulty and the controversy over its definition. Whereas the former names a substantive category of persons—female homosexuals—the latter refers to a contingent attribute. The use of the term to denominate a particular kind of woman, one whose sexual desire is directed toward other women, originated in the late nineteenth century with the formulation of types of sexual deviance, especially homosexuality. ...Taking "lesbian" as an adjective, however, implies that female same-sex desire is a detachable modifier, a relative characteristic rather than an essential, or core, substance. Describing an object or activity as lesbian may simply reflect its contingent affiliation or association with female homoeroticism. Such an understanding of the term was common in Western society before the twentieth century and remains so in non-Western cultures that do not sharply distinguish female homosexuality from heterosexuality.
(and Frith, by extension) has been described in scholarship as a roaring girl, a transvestite, a lesbian, and, more recently, as both (proto-) butch and transgender.
An earlier version of this article appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 30, issue 3, 1996.(doi:10.1300/J082v30n03_01. PMID 8743114. ISSN 0091-8369.)
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'The elders will tell you the difference between a gay Indian and a Two-Spirit,' [Criddle] said, underscoring the idea that simply being gay and Indian does not make someone a Two-Spirit.
Unfortunately, depending on an oral tradition to impart our ways to future generations opened the floodgates for early non-Native explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists to write books describing Native peoples and therefore bolstering their own role as experts. These writings were and still are entrenched in the perspective of the authors who were and are mostly white men.
An earlier version of this article appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 30, issue 3, 1996.(doi:10.1300/J082v30n03_01. PMID 8743114. ISSN 0091-8369.)
An earlier version of this article appeared in Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 30, issue 3, 1996.(doi:10.1300/J082v30n03_01. PMID 8743114. ISSN 0091-8369.)