"The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature……" — Michel Foucault

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series… - Michel Foucault
"The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified."

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