Tracing the reverse history of homosexuality from the Ottoman Empire to contemporary Turkey : From tolerance to discrimination

doi:10.4324/9780429264030-18

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Tracing the reverse history of homosexuality from the Ottoman Empire to contemporary Turkey

ABSTRACT

The term “homosexuality” itself is a Western construct coined in the nineteenth century, and it was through the creation of the category of “homosexual” that the category of “heterosexual” originated (Sedgewick 1990)