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Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb
1910 book by Magnus Hirschfeld From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb is a classic 1910 book on crossdressing and transvestism that was written by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.[1][2][3] An illustrated companion second volume to the book was published by Hirschfeld and Max Tilke in 1912.[4][5][6] In addition, a second edition of Die Transvestiten was published by Hirschfeld in 1925.[7] Subsequent to its publication, the book was translated into English with the title Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress by Michael Lombardi-Nash in 1991.[8][3]
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Background
Hirschfeld was himself gay and an occasional crossdresser, known by other Berlin crossdressers as "Aunt Magnesia".[9][8] It has been said that Die Transvestiten was the most significant and authoritative text on transvestism of its time.[10] While the book is about crossdressing, it also clearly includes some people with cross-gender feelings who would likely be referred to as transgender today.[1][9][8] The book has often been overlooked in the English-speaking academia.[10]
Die Transvestiten includes first-person narratives of crossdressing, Hirschfeld's commentaries on these cases, and theorizing based on the observations.[1] Of the narratives, there were 17 in total, with 16 of them natal male and one of them natal female.[1] In the book, Hirschfeld wished to distinguish transvestism and transgenderism from other forms of sexual and/or gender variance, like homosexuality and paraphilias like fetishism and sadomasochism.[1][8] Hirschfeld coined the term transvestism in the book.[1] The original data for the cases in the book was destroyed by the Nazis in 1933 when they burned down Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) in Berlin.[1]
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See also
- Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes (Hirschfeld, 1914)
References
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