1st Edition
Representing Lesbian Lives in Hungary History, Culture, and Psy Sciences
1. Introduction 2. Sándor/Sarolta Vay – a conventional gender bender in fin-de-siècle Hungary 3. The Amor lesbicus in the mirror of pre-war Hungarian psy-sciences 4. From abnormal sexual feelings to rebellious women: Press representations of women’s same-sex attractions in Hungary from the pre-war years to the state-socialist period 5. Erzsébet Galgóczi, the first openly lesbian writer in Hungary. Literary, sexual and political aspects 6. “She got used to, at least tolerates, but sometimes even enjoys sex life.” Representing women’s same-sex desire in the psycho-medical literature of state-socialist Hungary 7. Secret years. Hungarian lesbian herstory in oral history 8. “Sexual propaganda can confuse children.” Psychologists on gender and sexuality in the context of Hungarian “child protection” policy
Biography
Anna Borgos is a psychologist and women’s historian, the editor in chief of the Hungarian psychoanalytic journal, Imágó Budapest. She holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Pécs. She published several books and articles in Hungarian women’s history, mostly connecting to literature, psychoanalysis and sexuality. She co-edited a volume with Ferenc Erős and Júlia Gyimesi, Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences, published in 2019. Her most recent book, Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow, was published in 2021.
