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The history of sexuality has attracted the interest of more and more historians in recent years, but research in this field has proven difficult with results emerging slowly. Much energy has been expended on problems of terminology — and not without reason, if we are to avoid the danger of using modern sexological terminology in an anachronistic way. This especially holds for words like ‘homosexuality’, ‘lesbianism’, and ‘transsexuality’, which not only have no early synonyms, but include meanings and connotations which simply did not exist at the time.
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Dekker, R.M., van de Pol, L.C. (1989). Sexuality. In: The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19752-1_4
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