Con el título "'Simulando assim a cópula normal'. Saphists, tribades, fricatrixes and lesbians: between biomedical taxonomical categories and identity in Portugal (1895-1930)", acaba de ver la luz en el International Journal of Iberian Studies, 29 (2916), 2, pp. 113-123, un artículo de Francisco Molina y Richard Cleminson. Reproducimos debajo el abstract de este trabajo:
This co-authored article analyses the work of a number of sexual
scientists and legal experts in Portugal at the end of the nineteenth
and beginning of the twentieth century with respect to their attempts to
classify and investigate female homosexuality in Portugal. Building on
work
already published by the two authors on the subject of Egas Moniz’s
ideas on male homosexuality, this article considers the sexological
discourse on lesbians and their presence in Portuguese society in the
first half of the twentieth century through a close textual analysis of
the work
of Moniz and that of other authors. The differences and similarities
between Portuguese specia lists’ work and their European counterparts
form a key aspect of this work. In this way, a contribution is made to
the history of sexuality in Portugal and the framing of Portuguese
discourses
on lesbianism within broader European expert fields.
