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What issues have historians raised in researching the construction of one of the following cultural identities: class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality or nation?
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What issues have historians raised in researching the construction of one of the following cultural identities: class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality or nation? Cultural identity is a fundamental aspect of the society we live in; one must carry an identity of oneself in one form or another. It can be argued that there is no one real identity; historians have raised many issues in researching the construction of cultural identities, sexuality being one of them. It was not until the 1980's that the term homosexual first began to be used in English; none of it ancestors now survive in common speech, such as 'bugger', 'ingle' or 'sodomite.' Such words survive, if at all, in legal forms or classical and theological contexts. For a century, research on the history of homosexuality has been restrained by governments and academics. For example, in Berlin, German homosexual intellectuals founded the Institute for Sex Research in 1919,...
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