atdtda: 31 - pg 866 - invert

[Bekah]

Re Jenny Invert:

Seems the term "invert" is used in homosexual parlance.

"Sexual inversion (used by Krafft-Ebing and also Havelock Ellis and  
John Addington Symonds in "Sexual Inversion", 1897. Popularised by  
Radclyffe Hall's use of it in her novel The Well of Loneliness.)"

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"These terms describe individuals for whom the sex of the psyche is  
the opposite of that of the genitals (as with Ulrich's Urnings). The  
female invert is therefore masculine and the male invert is feminine.  
Traits of inversion include homosexual erotic attraction,  
temperament, and behavior; sometimes inversion can affect career  
choice and even anatomic structure. Krafft-Ebing, drawing on the  
earlier writings of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, described male inverts  
with varying degrees of effeminacy, from Effemination in which a man  
has a distinctly feminine demeanor, to Androgyny in which a man is so  
effeminate that he can even has feminine bodily characteristics like  
rounded hips."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality

Could Jenny have been a masculine type lesbian?

Bekah


On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:48 AM, Bekah wrote:
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> 866.6  Jenny Invert
> The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage  
> stamp first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the  
> Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally  
> printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in  
> American philately. Only 100 of the inverts were ever found, making  
> this error one of the most prized in all philately; an inverted  
> Jenny was sold at a Robert A. Siegel auction in November 2007 for US 
> $977,500.[1] A block of four inverted Jennys was also sold at a  
> Robert A. Siegel auction in October 2005 for US$2.7m.[2] In  
> December of 2007, a mint, never hinged example, meaning one not  
> previously affixed to a stamp album, was sold to an unidentified  
> Wall Street executive for $825,000.[3] The broker of the sale says  
> the buyer is a collector who lost the auction the previous month  
> mentioned above.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_Jenny
>
> ME:  needless to say it reminds me of Pierce Inverarity
>
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