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Tag Archives: Symonds
Sexologists’ Stereotypes
Ellis, Symonds, and Mayne all had similar ideas and stereotypes about the people they characterized as sexually deviant from the cultural norms. Whereas homosexual men were usually thought by these sexologists to be inherently feminine in nature, homosexual women were … Continue reading
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Not Merely a “Figure of Speech”
Benjamin Jowett, a professor of Greek at Oxford in the 19th century, proudly proclaimed a “historicist approach to the ancient world,” saying that “an objective and ethically detached stance” was necessary for the production of truthful research (Orells 2015, 110). … Continue reading
