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I found this and thought it was super interesting! I’ve also seen some people claim it came from the term dike used to describe the barrier in water (as in something men saw as us using to “stop them from getting in”)

I hadn’t heard of this before though , so I think it’s very interesting and I want to look more into it

(Source: Making Black Waves by Valerie Mason-John and Ann Khambatta)

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The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, October 4, 1903

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The Macroclitoride, the Tribade, and the Woman: Configuring Gender and Sexuality in English Anatomical Discourse, Theresa Braunschneider (1999)

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Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture, Bram Dijkstra

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Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), Helmut Puff (2000)

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“The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Disorder and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936”, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America, Caroll Smith-Rosenberg, (1986)

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Religion and lust; or, The psychical correlation of religious emotion and sexual desire, James Weir, Jr. M. D. (1905)

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The Sexual Life of The Child, Dr. Albert Moll (1912)

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Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire From Nineteenth-Century France, Gretchen Schultz

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"Case 131: Gynandry” Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1894)

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"Case 120” & "Case 130” Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1894)

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"Effemination and Viraginity” & "Androgyny and Gynandry” Psychopathia Sexualis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1894)

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Collection of stuff I find relevant to understanding what I have termed "misogynandry", a subset of misogyny that targets and is the hatred of female-masculinity and gynandrous people (FTMs, butch lesbians, AFAB intersex, etc).

LF Translator! Familiar with Anglo-Norman/Law French/Norman French circa 1500s-1600s? Interested in the topic of this blog? If yes, please message me!

Please take the time to read the source material in full, there is a lot to be learned.

Quick Ref:

Virago, Viragin, Viragint n. (late 19th cent.) a masculine or manly woman; a bold, impudent woman; “female homosexuals [who] also exhibit other peculiarities usually characteristic of the male, such as dislike of ordinary feminine occupations, a neglect of the arts of the toilet, and a rough and masculine mode of behaviour.” viraginity n., viragincy n., viraginian adj., viraginous adj.

Gynandry n. (late 19th cent.) a disorder which caused women to forsake their natural sex role and live as men; a worse form of viraginity; “a victim of gynandry not only has the feelings and desires of a man, but also the skeletal form, features, voice, etc.” gynander n., gynandryne n., (fr) gynandre n., gynandrous adj.

Complete List (and things you should read):

Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (Bram Dijkstra)

Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire From Nineteenth-Century France (Gretchen Schultz)

Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (Caroll Smith-Rosenberg)

Female Sodomy: The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477) (Helmut Puff)

The Myth of Lesbian Impunity: Capitals Laws from 1270 to 1791 (Louis Crompton)

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“If we ask decorous questions of history, we will get a genteel history. If we assume that because sex was a secret it did not exist, we will get a sexless history. If we assume that in periods of oppression, Lesbians lost their autonomy and acted as victims only, we destroy not only history but lives. For many years the psychologists told us we were both emotionally and physically deviant; they measured our nipples and clitorises to chart our queerness, they talked about how we wanted to be men and how our sexual styles were pathetic imitations of the real thing and all along under this barrage of hatred and fear, we loved. They told us that we should hate ourselves and sometimes we did but we were also angry, resilient and creative. We were part of a community that took care of itself. And most of all we were Lesbian women, revolutionizing each of these terms. We create history as much as we discover it. What we call history becomes history and since this is a naming time, we must be on guard against our own class prejudices and discomforts. If close friends are to be part of Lesbian history, so must be also, and to me even more importantly, the Lesbians of the fifties who left no doubt about their sexuality or their courage.”

— Joan Nestle, “Thinking About History,“ Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter 7 (1981): 6.