DOCTOR ALAN HART

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Acknowledgements

Research funding provided by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, University of Rochester.

Notes

1. These are: Doctor Mallory (1935), The Undaunted (1936), The Lives of Men (1937), and Doctor Finlay Sees it Through (1942). All were published by W.W. Norton of New York.

2. Doctor Gilbert's first descriptions of Hart describe him as possessing: ‘Unusually high grade of intelligence, alert, ambitious and, all in all, decidedly of the higher grade of humanity, when judged by the customary standards’ (Katz 1976 [1992], 258). Doctor Gilbert struggles with what he considers as ‘treason to the underlying principles of psychotherapy’ (1976 [1992], 275) and admits to ‘long hesitancy and deliberation’ before deciding that hysterectomy presented ‘the only rational course’ (1976 [1992], 276).

3. ‘Homosexuality and its Treatment’ was originally published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease in October 1920. It was reprinted with commentary by Jonathan Ned Katz, in section 3 of his volume, under the subject heading ‘Passing Women’ (258–79).

4. From the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program's online archive, associated with Yale University's Larry Kramer Initiative and the 2004 exhibit at the Sterling Library, Yale University, ‘The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642–2004’.

5. See the discussions on the websites: ‘Right to Privacy Representatives Meet with NorthWest Transsexual Activists’ (n.d.) and ‘Stolen History, Secret Lives’ (n.d.).