Lesbian Historic Motif Project - Misc. Tags - Medical Topics and Specific Genres of Source Material

Today’s tag-list essay finishes up the “Miscellaneous Tags” group, covering the topics of medical/physiological topics and tags for specific genres of source material. Entries include things like:

• essentialism - The debate between understanding homosexuality as an inborn orientation versus a chosen or socially-conditioned behavior exists as far back as the records go. In general, the default is to view it as chosen (e.g., as “sin”) or as a context-specific social role (e.g., “romantic friendship”), therefore I have only tagged sources when they give evidence for understanding it as an “essential” inborn aspect of personality.
• artistic representation - This tag is used for discussing visual art depicting sex between women or lesbian characters from literature.
• court case - This tag identifies court records of legal cases involving either the suspicion or reality of lesbian sex.

The remained category of tags is the largest one: people, publications, and events. This will include specific historic or literary figures, including both women associated with lesbian-like motifs and authors (of any gender) who wrote on relevant topics. It includes specific publications of relevance, and also more rarely institutions or specific historic events that are of interest to the Project. Many of the tags in this last group are used rarely (some only once) and new items are added regularly. So once I set up the person/publication/event tag essays according to broad themes, I’ll probably update them silently in the future.