...1990). 8. Foucault associates this periodization — "1870" — with the production of the homosexual as "a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life" (1978, 43). He adds: "We must not forget that the psychological, psychiatric, medical category of homosexuality...

...conrexr, the homosexual "hecame a petsonage, a pasr, a case histoty, and a childhood, in addition to heing a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possihly a mysretious physiology. . . . The sodomire had heen a remporaty ahetration; the homosexual...

...doctors, to define social problems and enforce social norms. In an oft-cited passage, Foucault argues: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology . . . Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice...

...Trumbach) or in the late nineteenth century (Weeks, Foucault). To cite the classical words of Foucault: "As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...in addition to being a type of life, a life form. . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species" (Foucault 1980,43)....

...description of the emergence of the homosexual as a distinct ontological category in the nineteenth century: The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and a mysterious physiology. Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his sexuality....

...more than a hundred years ago that the "homosexual" rather suddenly became, as Michel Foucault put it, "a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood,...with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology."63 Relatively suddenly in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the "sexual invert"...

...certain sense, Wilde's entire career took part in the forging of the first publicly gay personalities. "The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage,...being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology . . . the homosexual was now a species" (Foucault 43). For a discussion of Oscar Wilde's trial and...

...century and the nascent sciences of psychology and psychiatry. As defined by earlier legal or religious codes, 'sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their...nothing more than the juridical subject of them'. In stark contrast, the nineteenthcentury homosexual was a personage, a past, a case history, and a...

...nineteenth century, "the homosexual" became a full-blooded personage, "a case history, and a childhood ... a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." Foucault argued, prior to this period, "the sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual...

...of psychoanalysis and feminist first principles to which so many texts resort. Sexual Transformation As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology . . . The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species. (Foucault, 1978,...