The Intermediate Sex

The Intermediate Sex (full title: The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women) was a 1908 work by Edward Carpenter expressing his views on homosexuality. Carpenter argues that "uranism", as he terms homosexuality, was on the increase, marking a new age of sexual liberation. [1] The work was an influence on Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, both young war-poets and officers in England's trenches when they met.[2] During the time they served together, the men were friends, and Pat Barker's novel Regeneration is a fictionalization of their interactions.[3]

References
  1. Flood, M. (2007) International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Routledge: Abingdon, p. 315
  2. Bremer, John (2012). C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War: 1914-1918. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7391-7152-3.
  3. Barker, Pat (1992). Regeneration. New York, United States: Dutton. pp. 53–4. ISBN 0525934278.


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