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Accepted Paper:
Psychiatry, criminology, criminal law: the scientific construction of the homosexual man and the homosexual woman in Poland since ca.1870 till 1939
Agnieszka Weseli
(University of Warsaw)
Paper short abstract:
This paper tracks changing constructions of 'the homosexual male' and 'the homosexual female' in correspondence with models of male and female sexuality in Poland in the period from 1870 till 1939.
Paper long abstract:
This paper presents how the construction of 'the homosexual male' and 'the homosexual female' changed across 70 years of Polish history, from the publication of the first broad scientific researches on this matter until WWII. It analyzes sources such as translations of European authors, the original publications of Polish scientists (Leon Wachholz, Antoni Miklaszewski, Gustaw Bychowski and others), and the writings of lawmakers who worked on the new criminal code of the 1920s and the early 1930s.
I will place scientific research in the context of social transformations in several clearly discernible epochs: the last 20 years of the 19th century, the turn of the 20th century, and the years 1918-1939 in independent Poland. I will also show how models of homosexuality corresponded with broader models of male and female sexuality in the given periods.