title: Female or male: the classification of homosexuality and gender.
abstract: During this century the issue of homosexuality has been a recurrent theme on the research agenda of biologists. Historically, the life sciences have conceptualized homosexuals as persons with characteristics of the opposite sex. This paper discusses how the discourse on homosexuality became entangled with the discourse on gender.
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam, Department of Science and Technology Dynamics, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oudshoorn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011603:Psychophysiology; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology