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Homo(sexual) socialist: Psychiatry and homosexuality in China in the Mao and early Deng eras.

Homo(sexual) socialist: Psychiatry and homosexuality in China in the Mao and early Deng eras.

Authors :
Chen, Mian
Source :
Gender & History. Jul2024, Vol. 36 Issue 2, p657-672. 16p.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

This article focuses on the relationship between psychiatry and homosexuality in the People's Republic of China from the Mao era to early Deng era (1949–c.90). I argue that, entangled with the multi‐centred global psychopathological regime of homosexuality, the psychiatric discourse in China perpetuated a medicalised concept of homosexuality from the Mao period through the early Deng years. This article further situates homosexuality in Mao's China in the socialist camp to call for a decentring historiography of modern homosexuality. It also contributes to the understanding of the continuity between the Mao era and the Deng era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
09535233
Volume :
36
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Gender & History
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
178297476
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12743