Genealogies of Identity
Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 26) (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi BV.
Published: December 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9789042017580
Subjects: Family & relationships; Sexual behaviour
First sentence: It is generally well known among historians of sexuality that in 1869 Karl Maria Kertbeny was the first person in any language to combine the Greek homo [same] with the Latin sexus [sex] in order to produce the word "homosexual."