Special Section: Psychoanalysis and LGBT Issues. The Hidden History of Gay Psychoanalysts

AbstractThis article provides a comparative analysis of four large towns in the Southern Low Countries between c. 1350 and c. 1550. Combining the data on Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp – each of which is discussed in greater detail in the articles in this special section – with recent research on Bruges, the authors argue against the historiographical trend in which the political history of late medieval towns is supposedly dominated by a trend towards oligarchy. Rather than a closure of the ruling class, the four towns show a high turnover in the social composition of the political elite, and a consistent trend towards aristocracy, in which an increasingly large number of aldermen enjoyed noble status. The intensity of these trends differed from town to town, and was tied to different institutional configurations as well as different economic and political developments in each of the four towns.

Download Full-text

Toward a Global Intellectual History of “Minority”

Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East ◽

10.1215/1089201x-9407819 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 319-324

Author(s):

Roy Bar Sadeh ◽

Lotte Houwink ten Cate

Keyword(s):

Intellectual History ◽

Political Representation ◽

Special Section ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Valuable Contribution ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Minority Politics ◽

History Of ◽

Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Abstract The term minority is today applied to describe beleaguered, persecuted, and exiled people whose subordination is preserved or merely “tolerated” by majoritarian politics inherent to modern states. As this introduction indicates, however, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries minority politics became a rubric for sociopolitical emancipation, providing a framework for intellectuals in colonized Asia and Africa to question European powers' treatment of marginalized communities. Bar Sadeh and Houwink ten Cate contend that “minority” has unique value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled in this special section, “Minority Questions.” By examining the diverse genealogies of the concept of minority, the essays that follow provide a valuable contribution to efforts to redress historical wrongs, even as they offer a range of explanations for the enduring legacy and power of this multifaceted concept.

Download Full-text

INTRODUCTION

Ancient Mesoamerica ◽

10.1017/s0956536107000156 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 107-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William R. Fowler

Keyword(s):

Urban Landscape ◽

Special Section ◽

Third Century ◽

The Sun ◽

Urban Archaeology ◽

The Moon ◽

History Of ◽

The Temple

This is the twenty-fifth Special Section published in Ancient Mesoamerica, and therefore it represents something of a milestone in the history of the journal. The goal has been to present in each special section a collection of related papers from a single project or region or on a selected topic to provide readers a tightly integrated summary of current research and interpretations. Certainly one of the most compelling and provocative special sections we have published was “Urban Archaeology at Teotihuacan” which appeared in vol. 2, no. 1 (1991). This collection of papers featured two stunning articles on the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, then often referred to as the Temple of Quetzalcoatl. Constructed in the early third century A.D., the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, along with the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid, was one of the three most powerful monuments in the sacred urban landscape of Teotihuacan. Rubén Cabrera Castro, Saburo Sugiyama, and George L. Cowgill (1991) reported on excavations in the 1980s of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid and the investigation of more than 137 sacrificial burials, including more than 70 males identified as soldiers because of associated offerings, discovered at the base of and underneath the pyramid. In the second article, Alfredo López Austin, Leonardo López Luján, and Saburo Sugiyama (1991) presented their brilliant iconographic analysis of the sculptural facades of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, arguing that the monumental structure was dedicated to the myth of the origin of time and calendric succession, a tangible cosmogonic proclamation that Teotihuacan was “the place where time began.”

Download Full-text

Sexual and Gender Minorities and Bullying in Japan

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling ◽

10.1093/med:psych/9780199387656.003.0011 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 185-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Makiko Kasai

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Gay Men ◽

Sexual Minority ◽

Gender Nonconformity ◽

Lgbt Issues ◽

Gender Minorities ◽

Gender Reassignment ◽

History Of ◽

And Gender ◽

Bullying Experiences

Japan does not have a cultural history of strong stigma against homosexuality and gender nonconformity in the ways that are true in West, but there is growing evidence that homophobia and transphobia do exist. In this chapter, the history of LGBT issues in Japan is overviewed, focusing mainly on the experiences of gay men and lesbians. Lately, more LGBT-related research has focused on studies on persons with gender identity disorder (GID) due to the approval of gender reassignment surgery as a treatment for GID. Many studies showed that sexual minority youth reported suicidal wishes or behavior because of bullying experiences, feelings of isolation, physical dysphoria, or internal homophobia or transphobia. Moreover, most teachers reported that they did not include any material on LGBT issues in classroom, thus highlighting an urgent need to educate school teachers on these issues.

Download Full-text

BJHS special section: book history and the sciences Introduction

The British Journal for the History of Science ◽

10.1017/s0007087499003921 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

pp. 155-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

JONATHAN R. TOPHAM

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Social History ◽

History Of Science ◽

Book History ◽

Special Section ◽

Social Actors ◽

History Of ◽

Innovative Work ◽

Culture Of Science ◽

History Of Books

The expanding interest in book history over recent years has heralded the coming together of an interdisciplinary research community drawing scholars from a variety of literary, historical and cultural studies. Moreover, with a growing body of literature, the field is becoming increasingly visible on a wider scale, not least through the existence of the Society for the History of Authorship, Readership and Publishing (SHARP), with its newly founded journal Book History. Within the history of science, however, there remains not a little scepticism concerning the practical value of such an approach. It is often dismissed as an intellectual fad or as an enterprise which is illuminating but ultimately peripheral, rather than being valued as an approach which can offer major new insights within the field. This is no doubt in part because much of the most innovative work in history of science over recent years has been carried out by historians anxious to get away from an earlier overemphasis on printed sources. Eager to correct a profoundly unsocial history of ideas, usually rooted in texts, historians have looked increasingly to both the practices and the material culture of science. In such a context, a renewed focus on the history of books sometimes seems like a retrograde step, especially given the common misidentification of ‘books’ with ‘texts’. On the contrary, however, it is just such a twin emphasis on practices and material culture which also characterizes the new book history. Indeed, to the question ‘what is book history for?’ we might answer that its object is to reintroduce social actors, engaged in a variety of practices with respect to material objects, into a history in which books have too often been understood merely as disembodied texts, the meaning of which is defined by singular, uniquely creative authors, and is transparent to readers.

Download Full-text

Historical Views of Homosexuality: Asia

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1247 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy Rich ◽

Andi Dahmer ◽

Isabel Eliassen

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

National Level ◽

The West ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

Transgendered People ◽

Lgbt Issues ◽

Lgbt Community ◽

Bisexual And Transgender ◽

History Of ◽

Antidiscrimination Policies

How does Asia compare to other regions in terms of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights? While Asia lags behind the West on typical metrics of LGBT rights, this fails to capture the diversity of tolerance historically in the region. At the same time, conservative backlashes to LGBT policies are evident across the region, often invoking traditionalist or religious opposition, as also seen outside of the region. Moreover, much of the literature myopically focuses on one or two countries in Asia, rarely attempting to make broad comparisons across East, South, and Central Asia. Part of this is due to terminology differences, where “homosexual” is commonly used in some countries as a catch-all term for members of the LGBT community, compared to others in the region countries, especially in South Asia, with a longer history of specialized terminology for transgendered people. Yet broader comparisons in the absence of terminology differences remain rare despite growing attention to LGBT issues in public opinion polls, news, and academic work and despite the fact that the legal avenues chosen by LGBT rights proponents often mirror those chosen in the West. State policies on LGBT policies also range considerably in the region, with only Taiwan currently recognizing same-sex marriage at the national level, but with decriminalization and antidiscrimination policies at the national and local levels increasingly common. However, a commonly overlooked trend is that of harsher LGBT policies enacted by local governments. Meanwhile, despite trends in the West of growing public tolerance on LGBT issues, far less consistency emerges in Asia, further complicating state efforts. It is important to highlight Asia’s diversity in terms of rights and tolerance, but it is equally important to integrate evidence from Asia into cross-national research on LGBT issues to understand what is unique about the region and what may have been ignored in other regions.

Download Full-text

Introduction to the Special Section Northeast Japan: A Case History of Subduction

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ◽

10.1029/94jb01130 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 99 (B11) ◽

pp. 22137-22145 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Carol Finn ◽

Gaku Kimura ◽

Kiyoshi Suyehiro

Keyword(s):

Case History ◽

Special Section ◽

History Of

Download Full-text

CERRO PORTEZUELO: STATES AND HINTERLANDS IN THE PRE-HISPANIC BASIN OF MEXICO

Ancient Mesoamerica ◽

10.1017/s0956536113000035 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 47-71 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Deborah L. Nichols ◽

Hector Neff ◽

George L. Cowgill

Keyword(s):

Special Section ◽

Formative Period ◽

Postclassic Period ◽

Spanish Conquest ◽

Long Span ◽

History Of Research ◽

History Of ◽

Early Classic Period ◽

State Organization ◽

City State

AbstractGeorge Brainerd directed excavations at Cerro Portezuelo in the mid-1950s to understand the Classic to Postclassic transition and the questions he asked are still salient. We have undertaken a reanalysis of the artifacts, survey, and excavation data from Brainerd's project to better understand the nature of relations between the Early Classic period city of Teotihuacan, its immediate hinterlands, and the change from the Teotihuacan state system to Postclassic period city-state organization. Because of Cerro Portezuelo's long occupation that began in the Late/Terminal Formative period and continued beyond the Spanish Conquest, it is a strategic site to investigate the dynamics of state formation and episodes of centralization and fragmentation over this long span. Here we review the history of research concerning Cerro Portezuelo, discuss the current research project reported in the articles that comprise this Special Section, and highlight some of the major findings.

Download Full-text