...like "the sodomist" (the two terms tend to be used interchangeably in Malaysia), is clearly a species, "a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood,...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology" (Foucault 1978: 43), though some of this occurs with certain types of pondan as well. A key difference...

...homosexual is not simply a person who happens to commit a homosexual act but, in Foucault's famous words, "a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood,...with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology."7 The nature of the urning is not likely to change, because his or her sexual identity...

...(rather than random individuals who had committed a particular act). As a result, the nineteenth century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...form, and a morphology with an indiscreet anatomy and a possibly mysterious physiology. Nothing that went into his total composition was unaffected by his...

...epoch of modernity from "the premodern" in the difference between the sodomite and the homosexual: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition...

...social thinker. Michel Foucault il 980l provided a powerful statement of this perspective. As defined by ancient civil or canonical codes. sodomy was a category...nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The ninetcenth -century homosexual became a personage. a past. a case history. a life form ... Nothing...

...marked a shift in attention away from behaviours to identities. As Foucault so famously explained: As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes,...forbidden acts; their perpetrator was nothing more than a juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history...

...her a coherent erotic identity. Foucault, after all, described the "nineteenth-century homosexual" as "a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with...indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology." The anatomy of the early modern tribade was nothing if not indiscreet; her body was, above all, defined...

...of the better known examples of this process. Foucault notes that, prior to the nineteenth century, "sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their perpetrator...nothing more than the juridical subject of them," but that, during the nineteenth century, the "homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history,...

...has suggested the late nineteenth century medicalisation of the sodomite created the homosexual as 'a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life form'.20 While this may be true, the logic of a 1960s medical knowledge, with its optimism for cure,...

...passage is in fact so well forgotten that nothing but direct quotation from it will do. Foucault writes, As defined by the ancient civil or canonical codes, sodomy was a category of forbidden acts; their author was nothing more than the juridical subject of them. The nineteenth-century homosexual became...