NEITHER WOMAN NOR MAN: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE THIRD SEX IN WESTERN VISUAL CULTURE, 1900-1930

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dc.contributor.advisorKorobkin, Tessen_US
dc.contributor.authorCope, Ashley Lynnen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-01T06:31:00Z
dc.date.available2023-02-01T06:31:00Z
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractAs concepts that differ across history and between cultures—even diverging radically within a single time and place—sex, gender, and desire are most accurately understood when examined through a historically and culturally specific lens. This thesis directs that lens towards the intersection of sexology and art in early-twentieth-century France with a specific interest in representations of the third-sex subject in visual culture. Classified as neither women nor men by sexologists, members of the third sex at the turn of the twentieth century occupied a turbulent middle-ground between masculinity and femininity, and defied sexual and romantic social norms. Early sexology produced a plethora of images to serve as evidence of the innate nature of sexual desire and gender identity, and queer artists consuming sexologists’ work responded in kind with artistic works that grappled with theories of gender and sexual identity. This study deepens art historical engagement with images that contributed to and were influenced by sexology discourse in the early-twentieth century; artists like Romaine Brooks, Berenice Abbott, and Claude Cahun negotiated sexological theories about sex and gender in artworks that challenge binary conceptions of identity and make visible the third-sex subject.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/4ilz-ojwa
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/29538
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledGender studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLGBTQ studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBerenice Abbotten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledClaude Cahunen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMagnus Hirschfelden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollednon-binaryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRomaine Brooksen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledthird sexen_US
dc.titleNEITHER WOMAN NOR MAN: NEGOTIATIONS OF THE THIRD SEX IN WESTERN VISUAL CULTURE, 1900-1930en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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