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This is why one should pay more attention to the role of politics in categorization: knowledge is about power, indeed, but this does not mean that power only resides within knowledge. But this raises a question: Why oppose the two terms? In fact, the politics of science are but a reminder of the fact that science is always political: psychiatric categories do not exist outside of the social world. In 1973, many were dismayed to see homosexuality removed from the DSM by a referendum of the profession: ‘‘devising a psychiatric nomenclature turned out to be a matter of politics rather than science’’ (De Block & Adriaens, 2013, p. While in the past medical discourse never erased alternative categorizationsofsame-sexdesireandpractices,inthepresent,homosexuality as we know it has survived its psychiatric declassification.
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From this perspective, queer critiques of identity can be understood as contemporary reactions against the reinforcement of sexual identification. This has to do first with the new social model of ‘‘coming out,’’i.e., publically identifying as‘‘gay’’(in this text, a generic term that includes lesbians), that has followed ‘‘homosexual liberation.’’It is also related to the international political debate about (so-called)‘‘gay marriage,’’which implies two discrete categories of individuals defined by their potential conjugality, either same-sex or not. On the contrary, one might argue that the category has become even more rigid in the last forty years: it is more and more of a norm. A similar question can be raised not only at the beginning, but also at the end of ‘‘one hundred years of homosexuality’’ (Halperin, 1990): its psychiatric declassification in 1973, when it was removed from the DSM, did not in any way lead to the disappearance of the category of homosexuality from social usage. According to historian Chauncey (1985), Foucault may have exaggerated the importance of medical discourse in defining homosexuality: a half-century later, the new classification was still largely ignored in the United States. Beyond theoretical controversies about the social construction of sexuality, empirical critiques have also been leveled against this narrative. This famous page of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality can thus itself stand as the birth certificate of constructivist approaches to sex. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration the homosexual was now a species’’ (p. Of course, the & Eric Fassin 1ĭepartment of Political Science and Department of Gender Studies, Universite´ Paris 8, 2 Rue de la Liberte´, 93526 Saint-Denis, Franceĭepartment of Sociology, Research Laboratory, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Inserm, Paris, Franceįrench philosopher in no way suggests that gay sex did not exist prior to the new‘‘psychological, psychiatric, medical category of homosexuality’’ rather, homosexuality as we know it‘‘appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphrodism of the soul. Introduction According to Foucault (1978), homosexuality is a modern invention:‘‘Westphal’s famous article of 1870 on ‘contrary sexual sensations’ can stand as its date of birth’’(p. Keywords Homosexuality Sexual migration Immigration policies Identity Sexual orientation DSM-5 We argue that the politics of identity are not just, and not primarily about identity politics they have to do both with politics in general and policies in particular. However, the new categorization of homosexuality extends far beyond-in Europe and throughout the world. Fieldwork for this article was conducted in France on binational same-sex couples.
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On the other, the objects of these policies are also subjects: their own identity is caught up in this transnational process of identification. On the one hand, taking homosexuality into account for immigration control implies a definition of gay identity. This novelty is paradoxical: while homosexuality had previously been defined exclusively in negative terms, from the point of view of the State, it has now assumed a positive value in the West-since it can be invoked to justify asylum seeking. Published online: Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Ībstract Our article is about the new relevance of the category of‘‘the homosexual’’in immigration policies. Arch Sex Behav (2015) 44:1117–1125 DOI 10.1007/s1050-zīecoming Gay? Immigration Policies and the Truth of Sexual Identity Eric Fassin1