Event
The Great Tribadism Controversy of 1895 & the Invention of Sexual Deviance
Author: Jen Manion, Amherst College
Comment: Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State University
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
If it weren’t for a typo, few members of the American Medical Association in 1895 would have given much thought to sexual relations between women. But a dutiful reader -- stumped by the use of the word “tribaism” -- set off an exchange about a search for the definition of the word “tribadism.” How did this old term, with roots in ancient Greece, become a flashpoint in the emergent scientific study of sexuality? Why does it matter?
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Hybrid Event
The in-person reception starts at 4:30 PM and the seminar will begin at 5:00 PM.
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